2024 marks the first year that FAIRsharing maintainers may receive attribution on their ORCID profiles for their efforts in keeping their standards, databases and policies up to date, and nearly 100 maintainers have taken part this year! Back in 2021, FAIRsharing became a trusted organisation with ORCID. We used that status to enhance our login […]
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 […]
FAIRsharing Community Champions and in-house FAIRsharing staff have completed a massive curation effort begun more than 1 year ago, resulting in the curation and checking of every database-specific field across the entire FAIRsharing database registry. This resulted in more than thousands of edits over 2100 database records, and improves database transparency and readability across the […]
The FAIRsharing Registry WG is represented across eight sessions during the fully-virtual 22nd RDA Plenary, which begins next week. You can find staff and Community Champions throughout the conference, and we hope to see you there – please feel free to get in touch with us either via email at contact@fairsharing.org or via the Whova conference […]
FAIRsharing is pleased to announce stronger ties to University of Oxford’s research support expertise and teams, in the form of four new Community Champions. This collaboration will result in greater connectivity for FAIRsharing’s registry and educational provision within Oxford’s Research Practice Programme and Community. Our new FAIRsharing Champions have a strong background, and leadership roles, […]
We are proud to announce a new factsheet within our Content series: FAIRsharing content: policies overview. This factsheet provides key information about the policy registry and how you can make the most of it in your FAIR-enabling practices. It is part of our broader FAIRsharing Educational component, where we publish sets of infographics and factsheets […]
FAIRsharing Community Champions and in-house FAIRsharing staff have completed a massive curation effort begun 6 months ago, resulting in the curation and checking of every policy-specific field across the entire FAIRsharing policy registry. This resulted in more than 2800 individual edits across over 250 policy records, and improves policy transparency and readability across the entire […]
In this guest blog, FAIRsharing Community Champion for Policies and Chemistry Kay Burrows writes about her recent policy curation as she finishes her short-term contract with FAIRsharing, and her plans as she continues in the role of Champion. I became a FAIRsharing Community Champion in 2022 for Policy and Chemistry and joined the team on […]
NFDI4Chem and FAIRsharing: unlocking our curated collection of repositories for maximum visibility in the realm of chemistry. This content is a repost, with kind permission, of a news item written by Felix Bach for NFDI4Chem, and can be found at https://www.nfdi4chem.de/2024/03/07/collection-of-repositories-for-chemists/ Within the NFDI4Chem consortium, Task Area 3 (Repositories) plays a key role in establishing a robust foundation for […]
In this guest blog, FAIRsharing Community Champion for Chemistry Christian Bonatto Minella describes the Minimum Information Table for the Safety of Engineered Nanomaterials (MIT Nanosafety), and how the addition of this reporting guideline to FAIRsharing forms part of his role as a Champion. Advancing Nanosafety through Standardization: the Minimum Information Table for the Safety of […]
