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 for all the efforts of our in-house staff and our community maintainers and Champions. Read more to find out just how much they have contributed this year.
As community-developed standards, databases and policies are the core of FAIR and open data practices, so are the people that contribute to those communities. As we reach the end of 2024, we want to share some numbers with you that showcase the community of FAIRsharing contributors. These contributors come from across multiple domains and stakeholder groups: from funders to data stewards, curators to research software engineers, librarians to societies and policymakers.
Our Maintainers
This year alone, 241 maintainers (many of whom visited their record multiple times) made over 2000 edits.
Hundreds of standards, database and policy developers maintain their records with us at FAIRsharing. Claiming a record as either a group or an individual gives you the opportunity to make changes to the record yourself, allowing you complete control over how your resource is displayed in FAIRsharing. Maintainers are also notified if our curation team edits the record, if users ask questions, or if the record is linked from another record, such as from a journal publisher data policy.
Maintainers are also attributed via their ORCID, and a link to their ORCID profile will appear next to their name in the records they own. Complete details of the ways in which FAIRsharing attributes maintainers is available in our Attribution for you page.
This year alone, 241 maintainers (many of whom visited their record multiple times) made over 2000 edits. Each time they provide their expertise, not only are they credited for that information on FAIRsharing and on their ORCID profile, but they are also making it easier for members of their community (directly via FAIRsharing or indirectly via the tools that use it) to make informed decisions on enabling FAIR.
Our Community Champions
In 2024, our Champions made over 2800 edits, updated 373 records and added 55 new records.
The FAIRsharing Community Champions Programme has been running since 2022 and is composed of a thriving community of domain and discipline experts who:
- act as advocates to promote the value of standards, databases and policies for digital objects (incl. data, software).
- create educational material describing these resources helping researchers and other stakeholders to find, use and adopt them.
- enrich the content of FAIRsharing, adding and enhancing the description and discoverability of these resources.
The Champions put their expertise into action in one of more disciplines or area of activities, according to their interest, and are credited for their contribution via visible attribution in their ORCID and FAIRsharing profiles. Their contribution to and engagement with the FAIRsharing team gives them more knowledge about the wealth of standards (terminologies, models/formats, guidelines, identifier schema), databases (repositories and knowledge bases) and policies (by institutions, funders, journals and other stakeholders) relevant to them.
In 2024, our Champions made over 2800 edits, updated 373 records and added 55 new records. Averaged over the year, that’s more than 50 edits, 7 updated records and 1 new record each week!
Please join us in thanking our Champions of 2024: Alex Fraser, Adam Partridge, Beth Knazook, Christian Bonatto Minella, Clara Parente Boavida, David Tomkins, Debora Drucker, Francis P. Crawley, Gabriel Pelletier, Geta Mitrea, Hugh Shanahan, Joy Davidson, Kay Burrows, Kyle Copas, Laurence Brown, Lindsey Anderson, Lyndon Zass, Priyadarshini Thirunavukkarasu, Stephen Serjeant, Tim Gamble-Turner, Timothee Aubourg, Yojana Gadiya, and Yuhe Liang.
