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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 […]

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Perspectives on Policy Curation

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 […]

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Policy enrichment initiative: new mapping to Concordat on Open Research Data – A collaboration with UKRN

As previously described by both FAIRsharing and the DCC, FAIRsharing has a standing commitment to integrate with community efforts around the standardisation of standard/database/policy metadata. We are happy to announce a third alignment, with the Concordat on Open Research Data, in partnership with UKRN. We welcome your feedback on the current version of this mapping. […]

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Kay Burrows joins FAIRsharing to enrich the policy registry

We are proud to announce that Kay Burrows, who has been with us since 2022 as a FAIRsharing Community Champion for Policies and Chemistry, will be joining our team for a short-term contract focusing on the enrichment of the FAIRsharing policy registry. In recent years policymakers at the national, funding body, publisher, and organisational levels […]

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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.