A collaboration between the University of Oxford’s FAIRsharing and Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) teams has successfully delivered a new approach to evaluating and improving the FAIRness of research datasets. The work, undertaken as part of Oxford’s Research Practice Programme, has also supported a wider collaboration with the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN), establishing a shared […]
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The FAIRsharing community at RDA Plenary 27
FAIRsharing is looking forward to attending the RDA 27th Plenary (P27) in London, running from October 6-8 2026. We have a wide variety of stakeholders and collaborators that, like us, are active within the RDA and the plenaries are a great way to spend some time with them on topics that matter to the RDM […]
Although more than 30 FAIR assessment and assistance tools have emerged in recent years (https://fairassist.org/tools), they often exhibit widely different results due to the lack of transparency about what is actually being checked and how it is measured. FAIR is intentionally expressed as a set of high-level principles rather than a technical standard, allowing different […]
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FAIRsharing summer holidays
It’s time for our team to disconnect: log out of Teams, Zoom, Zulip and emails and have a well deserved summer break! We couldn’t leave without first giving our usual big THANK-YOU to all our collaborators and friends. We’ll see you all in September! In the Northern Hemisphere, summer has arrived, and around the world […]
Our spotlight series allows us to shine a light on the people who work with FAIRsharing. Today we’re focusing on Federico Bianchini, our Community Champion for the ELIXIR Research Data Management Community. Detailed information on the programme is available at the FAIRsharing Community Champions homepage. With thanks to Federico, who co-authored this blog with the FAIRsharing Team. Federico […]
FAIRsharing is a manually-curated, high-quality registry of standards, databases, and policies, and we are constantly improving the depth and coverage of our content. We have recently completed a massive curation effort that complements our addition of the new object type field. Efforts of curators, champions and the maintainer community has resulted in the population of […]
Defining and testing a common FAIR compliance process for institutional repositories
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SPDX links for FAIRsharing licences
In the last few months of 2025, curators and developers completed the addition of the System Package Data Exchange (SPDX) licence links to FAIRsharing’s existing licences. The SPDX licence list contains more than 700 licences commonly used in free and open or collaborative software, data, hardware, or documentation. Each SPDX cross-reference is linked via the […]
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2025 in review: our Community Champions
As we move into 2026, I’d like to celebrate the work of our FAIRsharing maintainers and FAIRsharingCommunityChampions over the last year, and welcome our newest Champions 🙂 Firstly, a particular congratulations to Lindsey Anderson from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for being our Top Contributor for 2025! She’s been one of the top contributors for three […]
In this joint blog post, John Shepherdson (Project Consultant, CESSDA ERIC) and Allyson Lister (FAIRsharing Coordinator – Content & Community, University of Oxford; and ELIXIR-UK) describe a recent workshop they co-led where community representatives began the creation of Benchmarks, to assist with FAIR-compliance, tailored to their specific requirements. On Friday, November 28th, the OSTrails project hosted […]