Updates and news from FAIRsharing, a curated, informative and educational resource on data and metadata standards, inter-related to databases and data policies.

Month: September 2026

News

The FAIRsharing community at RDA Plenary 27

Post author By Allyson Lister
Post date 24th September 2026

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 […]

Tags Community Champions, fairsharing, RDA

News

FAIRassist: registry of FAIR benchmarks and metrics

Post author By Allyson Lister
Post date 22nd September 2026

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 […]

Tags FAIR, ostrails