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Databases Demystified

Ever wondered how many open access and deposition repositories there are out there? Let FAIRsharing help you find out! This post will include various exemplars of how to use the FAIRsharing Advanced and Saved Searches to your advantage when exploring the landscape of research databases across all subject areas. The content will also posted on […]

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FAIRsharing is on Summer holiday

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 universities […]

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Community Champions enhance metadata across the entire database registry

FAIRsharing Community Champions and in-house FAIRsharing staff have completed a massive curation effort begun more than 1 year ago, resulting in the curation and checking of every database-specific field across the entire FAIRsharing database registry. This resulted in more than thousands of edits over 2100 database records, and improves database transparency and readability across the […]

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Data Stewardship Wizard and FAIRsharing collaborate to share policy, database and standard metadata

Building on a strong history of collaboration and the needs of international user communities, the Data Stewardship Wizard (DSW) and FAIRsharing are in the process of increasing the connectivity of these widely used resources.

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New mapping to EOSC TF maturity model for semantic artifacts

A new paper published by members of the EOSC Task Force on Semantic Interoperability aims to identify those dimensions and features that should be used to assess the maturity of catalogues of semantic artefacts. It has produced a list of 43 attributes of terminology registries or repositories (‘features’) across 12 broad categories (‘dimensions’). After updates […]

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FAIRsharing at RDA22

The FAIRsharing Registry WG is represented across eight sessions during the fully-virtual 22nd RDA Plenary, which begins next week. You can find staff and Community Champions throughout the conference, and we hope to see you there – please feel free to get in touch with us either via email at contact@fairsharing.org or via the Whova conference […]

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FAIRsharing grows roots into Oxford research support

FAIRsharing is pleased to announce stronger ties to University of Oxford’s research support expertise and teams, in the form of four new Community Champions. This collaboration will result in greater connectivity for FAIRsharing’s registry and educational provision within Oxford’s Research Practice Programme and Community. Our new FAIRsharing Champions have a strong background, and leadership roles, […]

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New FAIRsharing Policy factsheet now available

We are proud to announce a new factsheet within our Content series: FAIRsharing content: policies overview. This factsheet provides key information about the policy registry and how you can make the most of it in your FAIR-enabling practices. It is part of our broader FAIRsharing Educational component, where we publish sets of infographics and factsheets […]

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Community Champions complete update on the FAIRsharing policy registry

FAIRsharing Community Champions and in-house FAIRsharing staff have completed a massive curation effort begun 6 months ago, resulting in the curation and checking of every policy-specific field across the entire FAIRsharing policy registry. This resulted in more than 2800 individual edits across over 250 policy records, and improves policy transparency and readability across the entire […]

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Perspectives on Policy Curation

In this guest blog, FAIRsharing Community Champion for Policies and Chemistry Kay Burrows writes about her recent policy curation as she finishes her short-term contract with FAIRsharing, and her plans as she continues in the role of Champion. I became a FAIRsharing Community Champion in 2022 for Policy and Chemistry and joined the team on […]