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FAIRsharing welcomes eight new Champions for 2023

In the last year, FAIRsharing has gained eight new Community Champions. Find out a little more about them and what their plans are for their time in the programme.

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Data Sharing in the Age of COVID-19: Opportunities and Challenges

Published in The Lancet Digital Health The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the crucial need to share data rapidly and transparently to advance medical research and public health. In this spirit, a recent publication in The Lancet Digital Health, titled “Data sharing is central to the rapid translation of research into advances in clinical medicine and […]

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How EDITH has integrated FAIRsharing as part of their procedure for standards evaluation and endorsement

This post has been written by guest author Gerhard Mayer, Research Associate, Scientific Databases and Visualization (SDBV) group, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies. The EDITH (Ecosystem Digital Twins in Healthcare) project builds an ecosystem for a Virtual Human Twin (VHT) in healthcare. This VHT can be seen as a multi-scale and multi-component integration of organ-specific […]

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ROR in FAIRsharing: Autumn 2023 Update

In our bi-annual update of ROR in FAIRsharing, we have added ROR logos to all linked organisations in FAIRsharing, and we have updated our mappings to the ROR registry. Find out more in this blog post.

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FAIRsharing at #RSECon23

Earlier this month two of our team attended the seventh annual conference for research software engineering, held at Swansea University’s bay campus. As well as attending a variety of interesting panels and presentations (including enlightening discussions on both security and disability) we were also able to gain some valuable feedback related to our FAIRsharing Assistant, […]

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FAIRsharing on holiday in August

It’s time for our team to disconnect, log out of Teams, Zoom, Slack and emails and have a well deserved summer break 😎 We couldn’t leave though without first giving our usual big THANK-YOU to all our collaborators and friends. We’ll see you all in September!

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Celebrating the first year of our 18 FAIRsharing Community Champions!

We are proud to announce that the FAIRsharing Community Champion Programme has reached its first anniversary! This post celebrates all of the ways in which these 18 fantastic people have enriched FAIRsharing content while also gaining attribution, expertise and networking.

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Linking FAIRsharing records to FAIR Cookbook recipes

The FAIR Cookbook, an online resource that delivers content (“recipes”) to help users make and keep data FAIR, has gained additional connectivity with FAIRsharing. Learn how 582 links to 210 FAIRsharing records have been integrated into 63 recipes using a combination of computational tasks and manual curation.

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FAIRsharing at the RDA Plenary

FAIRsharing co-chaired or presented in five sessions at the 20th RDA Plenary in March 2023 in Gothenburg, Sweden. We were represented both by Allyson Lister and Susanna-Assunta Sansone, and through a selection of our Community Champions, either in person or virtually: You can find links to the sessions that we were involved in below: For […]

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New Record Relation Graphs

Back in the early days of FAIRsharing we added graphs which showed the relations between records collected by our “collection” record type. These proved to be popular, and so part of our plan for redesigning the entire site was to expand this feature to cover all records. But, there was a bit of a snag. […]