{"id":1147,"date":"2026-06-22T16:56:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T15:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.fairsharing.org\/?p=1147"},"modified":"2026-06-22T17:01:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T16:01:05","slug":"community-curators-in-the-spotlight-improved-connections-with-fairsharing-and-rdmkit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fairsharing.org\/?p=1147","title":{"rendered":"Community Curators in the Spotlight: Improved Connections with FAIRsharing and RDMkit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Our spotlight series allows us to shine a light on the people who work with FAIRsharing. Today we\u2019re focusing on Federico Bianchini, our\u00a0Community Champion for the ELIXIR Research Data Management Community. Detailed information on the programme is available at the\u00a0FAIRsharing Community Champions<\/a>\u00a0homepage.<\/em> With thanks to Federico, who co-authored this blog with the FAIRsharing Team.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research data management relies on a growing ecosystem of tools, standards, databases, policies, and training resources. Ensuring these resources remain connected, current, and easy to navigate is a challenge that affects researchers, data stewards, and infrastructure providers alike. Federico has developed a stronger integration between FAIRsharing and RDMkit. His work demonstrates how FAIRsharing’s identifiers, collections, and APIs can be embedded within complementary data stewardship services to create a more interoperable and sustainable research data management ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FAIRsharing plays a central role within ELIXIR’s Research Data Management Ecosystem and is recognised as one of ELIXIR’s Recommended Interoperability Resources. FAIRsharing records are already used across several ELIXIR services, including RDMkit, Data Stewardship Wizard (DSW), and TeSS, where FAIRsharing DOIs are used to annotate content. These annotations create links between resources that are meaningful both for people and for machines. They help users move among services while also enabling automated workflows that strengthen interoperability across the ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RDMkit provides curated recommendations for tools and resources across a wide range of life science domains. Behind the scenes, these recommendations are maintained through structured metadata that includes FAIRsharing identifiers, bio.tools references, and links to related training materials. Recent developments have further automated this curation process through direct use of FAIRsharing APIs. As each RDMkit domain page contains a curated set of relevant resources, Federico and colleagues recognised an opportunity: these curated lists could also be represented as FAIRsharing Collections, creating a direct and sustainable connection between the two platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turning RDMkit recommendations into FAIRsharing Collections<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Working closely with both the FAIRsharing and RDMkit teams, Federico helped develop a Python-based integration that acts as a bridge between the two resources. The script reads RDMkit domain pages, identifies the FAIRsharing records referenced on those pages, and automatically creates or updates corresponding FAIRsharing Collections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once a collection has been established, the process becomes largely self-maintaining. Rather than recreating collections from scratch, the workflow compares the current contents of an RDMkit page with the associated FAIRsharing Collection and updates only what has changed. New resources are added, outdated ones are removed, and the collection remains synchronised with the curated content in RDMkit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The workflow runs automatically each week through RDMkit’s GitHub infrastructure. To date, it has created and maintained 21 FAIRsharing Collections, providing an efficient and scalable way to keep both resources aligned. For FAIRsharing users, the connection provides access to the recommendations and best-practice guidance available through RDMkit. For RDMkit users, FAIRsharing offers a broader view of the standards, databases, policies, and other resources that underpin research data management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The integration also benefits curators. Updates made within RDMkit are reflected automatically in the corresponding FAIRsharing Collections, reducing duplication of effort and helping both resources remain current. Closer links with FAIRsharing have already helped identify deprecated resources and highlight newer alternatives that should be recommended to users. Most importantly, the work demonstrates how FAIRsharing’s infrastructure can be leveraged by external services to support coordinated curation across a distributed ecosystem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our spotlight series allows us to shine a light on the people who work with FAIRsharing. Today we\u2019re focusing on Federico Bianchini, our\u00a0Community Champion for the ELIXIR Research Data Management Community. Detailed information on the programme is available at the\u00a0FAIRsharing Community Champions\u00a0homepage. With thanks to Federico, who co-authored this blog with the FAIRsharing Team. Research […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/template-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[19,2,67],"class_list":["post-1147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-community-curation","tag-fairsharing","tag-rdmkit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fairsharing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fairsharing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fairsharing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fairsharing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fairsharing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fairsharing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1151,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fairsharing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions\/1151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fairsharing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fairsharing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fairsharing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}