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FAIRsharing adds a new field: digital research object type

FAIRsharing’s new ‘Object type’ allows every registered resource to declare the type(s) of digital object it supports. Does your repository store datasets, images, multimedia or publications? Is your community ontology intended to be used to tag datasets, or is it completely agnostic of the type of object within its scope? Read on to find out more about this new field.

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Three years of the FAIRsharing Community Champion Programme

Happy 3rd Birthday to the FAIRsharing Community Champion Programme! This post celebrates all of the ways in which our 30 current and 17 alumni Champions have enriched FAIRsharing content while also gaining attribution, expertise and networking.

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Happy Holidays from FAIRsharing

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 […]

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FAIRsharing maintainers receive ORCID attribution

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 […]

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FAIRsharing Community brings 2024 to a close with 4000+ record edits

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 […]

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Community Champions enhance metadata across the entire database registry

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 […]

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FAIRsharing at RDA22

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 […]

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FAIRsharing grows roots into Oxford research support

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, […]

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New FAIRsharing Policy factsheet now available

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 […]

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Community Champions complete update on the FAIRsharing policy registry

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 […]