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, […]
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!

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.

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.
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 […]
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. […]

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 […]

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
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.

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