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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. […]

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Launching FAIRsharing Educational with and for the research community

FAIRsharing is proud to announce the release of its FAIRsharing Educational component, a set of infographics and factsheets covering FAIRsharing content and functionalities for all users and stakeholders in all disciplines. The educational material will be built as a set of series, including: (i) FAIRsharing content (standards, databases and policies), (ii) FAIRsharing for you (target […]

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GBIF staff join the FAIRsharing Community Champions Programme

In this news item by Kyle Copas and published jointly by GBIF and FAIRsharing, BiCIKL guides development of FAIRsharing-powered web app enabling EU-funded project partners to share their collective knowledge on biodiversity-related standards, databases and policies

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Paying it forward: How the neuroscience community builds on FAIRsharing to make digital objects more FAIR

In this guest blog post, INCF Director of Science and Training Mathew Abrams describes how the INCF makes use of FAIRsharing as part of the formal procedure it has in place for the evaluation and endorsement of community standards.

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FAIRsharing at the National Biodiversity Network Conference

FAIRsharing presented at NBN 2022 last week, and here are our Allyson’s impressions of the day.

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FAIRsharing and DCC collaborate to align policy metadata

The DCC (on behalf of the FAIRsFAIR project) and FAIRsharing are proud to showcase our recent collaboration that aligned three data policy description efforts, making it easier than ever to create FAIR-aligned data policies and make policy descriptions more accessible to both humans and machines. The FAIRsharing data policy registry, the FAIRsFAIR FAIR data Policy Checklist, and the RDA’s Journal Policy Features have all been aligned and integrated within the FAIRsharing data model.