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 staff travel to visit friends and family.
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 years running 🥳
We’ve got up to quite a lot in 2025. Our 🧡 Champions 🧡 made nearly 3000 record edits, updated 502 records and added 55 new records. Averaged over the year, that’s more than 55 edits, 9 updated records and 1 new record each week!
We would also like to congratulate our 💚 Maintainer 💚 community; they are the resource managers who create and update their records with us, making sure that their content is represented fully and accurately within our registries! 345 of our maintainers made nearly 3500 edits this year on 553 records. Averaged over the year, that’s more than 66 edits and 10 updated records each week!
Our focus over the past year was on updating our records with new curation, including:
📊 digital research objects are now present across our database and policy registries (with the final few standards records to be curated early in the new year) See our docs for more information.
🧾 identifier schema records are now fully curated as to their GUPRI status ((globally unique, persistent and resolvable). See our docs for more information.
We also recommend that you take a look at the Editorial Reference Handbook (https://publishers.fairassist.org/ and our pre-print at https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/9vujt_v2), created as part of TIER2 Project and together with Matt Cannon and Rebecca Taylor-Grant from Taylor and Francis. Further, while 2024 was the year of policy curation, 2025 has seen the inclusion of many new database records; find out more about this and other statistics in our graphic below!
At the end of 2025 and at the start of 2026 we also welcome new Champions from ELIXIR, ESCAPE EU, CESSDA ERIC and PaNOSC. These include Gavin Farrell, Denise Slenter, Erdős Gábor, Joana Castro Paupério, Romain DAVID, Mijke Jetten, Federico Bianchini, Renaud Duyme, John Shepherdson, and Iulianna van der Lek.
We also say a huge thank you and “see you soon!” to our new alumni Champions, who have been absolutely wonderful and who we hope to see often in future: Timothee Aubourg, Clara Parente Boavida, Debora Drucker and Yojana Gadiya.
We have many exciting things planned for 2026 with and for our community, including (but not limited to) our work with our OSTrails colleagues!
Happy Holidays, Happy New Year and a big “Thank You!” to all our collaborators and friends. 2025 has been an interesting year for FAIRsharing, and we’re looking forward to more of the same next year. We’ll see you all in 2026!