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.
In this joint blog post, Allyson Lister and Susanna Sansone with guest authors Barbara Magagna, Tobias Kuhn, and Erik Schultes describe the collaboration between the FIP wizard and FAIRsharing The challenge we address At the core of putting FAIR into practice are the choices that have to be made when selecting the appropriate standards (i.e., […]
Last year, we reported on the first set of Oxford FAIRsharing Community Champions. In 2025, our growing engagement within Oxford research support, RDM and research practice areas has resulting in a corresponding growth in our Champion numbers from within Oxford. FAIRsharing is rooted in the University via a group of Oxford Champions from Bodleian Libraries, […]
It’s time for our team to disconnect, log out of Teams, Zoom, Zulip and emails and have a well deserved winter holiday! The FAIRsharing Team will be back at work in early January. Our responses during the holiday period may be delayed, and all support will be on a best effort basis as our staff travel […]
2024 marks the first year that FAIRsharing maintainers may receive attribution on their ORCID profiles for their efforts in keeping their standards, databases and policies up to date, and nearly 100 maintainers have taken part this year! Back in 2021, FAIRsharing became a trusted organisation with ORCID. We used that status to enhance our login […]
As 2024 draws to a close, we at FAIRsharing would like to shine some colourful fairy lights on our community members. Not only do they provide valuable feedback and suggestions around new features, they also provide about one third of the curation that happens in FAIRsharing. FAIRsharing is entirely manually curated, which makes us thankful […]