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 […]
It’s time for our team to log out of Teams, Zoom, Zulip and emails and have a well-deserved Christmas and New Year 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 […]
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.
The widespread requirement to make data findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (according to the FAIR Principles) means we must better prepare at local level to assist Oxford researchers to enable FAIR in practice, e.g. by automating guidance, improving tools and services, and enhancing education. The need is clear, both in the context of defining good […]
The study The FAIRsharing team was pleased to learn how the authors in “Combining knowledge graphs and LLMs for hazardous chemical information management and reuse” (2024 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM)) used FAIRsharing.org to find and analyse the FAIRness of chemical databases. In this paper, Da Silviera et al. performed analyses on the […]