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 to visit friends and family.
Keen to know what we’ve been up to? It’s been a year of attribution, with new Champions coming on board, new factsheets and additional attribution for our record maintainers via ORCID and DataCite (we have added more metadata to each of our DataCite records). Our maintainers and Champions have been very busy, with over 5000 edits between them! Collaborations, engagement and alignments with a number of organisations, tools and conferences have been regular features throughout the year, e.g. DSW, the DCC / FAIR-IMPACT, EOSC, RDA (RDA22, RDA23), AIBC, UKRN, and Argos. Future work in our TIER2 and OSTrails grants in 2025 means that collaboration will continue to be an important theme.
Curation from our staff and our Champions has focused on the database and policy registries, and we have shown you our new searching features that utilise these metadata to ‘demystify’ our database records and show you how to access and analyse FAIRsharing information.
Happy Holidays, Happy New Year and a big Thank You! to all our collaborators and friends. 2024 has been an action-packed year, and next year promises to be the same. We’ll see you all in 2025!