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
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 […]
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 […]
In this guest blog, FAIRsharing Community Champion for RDM and Social Sciences and Humanities David Tomkins writes about database and standard curation, completed as part of his recent short-term contract with FAIRsharing. Having been a FAIRsharing Community Champion for the Humanities and Social Sciences since 2023, I joined the FAIRsharing team as a Curator in February 2025 […]
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 […]
This is a guest blog by Dr Rebecca Taylor-Grant, where she describes recent work on the TIER2 Editorial Reference Handbook. For more information, please see the publication:Taylor-Grant, Rebecca & Cannon, Matthew & Lister, Allyson & Sansone, Susanna-Assunta. (2025). Making reproducibility a reality by 2035?: Enabling publisher collaboration for enhanced data policy enforcement. International Journal of […]
FAIRsharing’s new ‘Object type’ allows every registered resource to declare the type(s) of digital object it supports. Does your repository store datasets, images, multimedia or publications? Is your community ontology intended to be used to tag datasets, or is it completely agnostic of the type of object within its scope? Read on to find out more about this new field.
Happy 3rd Birthday to the FAIRsharing Community Champion Programme! This post celebrates all of the ways in which our 30 current and 17 alumni Champions have enriched FAIRsharing content while also gaining attribution, expertise and networking.