Status of discussions 2019-07-15

Makx -
Many thanks for summarising the 'state of play'. As one of the few who has been commenting (and enjoying the discussions) I support your request for others to comment - only by having broad agreement can we ensure our proposals will receive wider community support.
Best
Keith
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Subject: [fair_maturity] Status of discussions 2019-07-15
Dear WG,
Based on the discussion at the last online meeting on 18 June, we revised some of the indicators that were presented at the meeting, in several cases duplicating indicators for metadata and data as was suggested. The new indicators have been published in the related GitHub issues at https://github.com/RDA-FAIR/FAIR-data-maturity-model-WG/issues. Please review them and provide any feedback you may have, preferably as a comment in the GitHub issue.
On several issues, further discussion has taken place. Below is an overview of proposals that are being discussed.
'Rich metadata' (https://github.com/RDA-FAIR/FAIR-data-maturity-model-WG/issues/13)
On this issue, two broad opinions have been expressed:
One is to follow the recommendations of the RDA Metadata Interest Group (https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/metadata-ig.html) to request the provision of metadata for a set of 17 elements in order for data to be FAIR:
* Unique Identifier (for later use including citation)
* Location (URL)
* Description
* Keywords (terms)
* Temporal coordinates
* Spatial coordinates
* Originator (organisation(s) / person(s))
* Project
* Facility / equipment
* Quality
* Availability (licence, persistence)
* Provenance
* Citations
* Related publications (white or grey)
* Related software
* Schema
* Medium / format
The other opinion was expressed as "We need "a thick cloud" of metadata, but we cannot pre-determine what that cloud is composed of (and shouldn't try!)" This second view would leave the evaluation of the metadata to the evaluator, taking into account the community-specific metadata standard or application profile that is being used.
We are interested to hear more opinions on this issue. Please go to https://github.com/RDA-FAIR/FAIR-data-maturity-model-WG/issues/13 to participate in this discussion.
Indicators for I2: (meta)data use vocabularies that follow FAIR principles (https://github.com/RDA-FAIR/FAIR-data-maturity-model-WG/issues/24)
It is still being discussed to what extent vocabularies need to be FAIR. The latest contribution introduces the notion of 'primitive' FAIRness for vocabularies, i.e. at least resolving to a machine-understandable representation, as a useful test instead of testing for compliance with all FAIR principles, although it would still be the long-term objective for all vocabularies to become fully FAIR.
Indicators for R1.1: (meta)data are released with a clear and accessible data usage licence (https://github.com/RDA-FAIR/FAIR-data-maturity-model-WG/issues/27)
Two new indicators have been proposed:
* Provision of licence information in the appropriate element in the metadata standard used
* Licence information NOT provided in the appropriate element
* Licence information provided in the appropriate element
* Provision of machine-understandable licence information
* NO machine-understandable licence information (e.g. the human-readable title of a licence)
* Machine-understandable licence information (e.g. as provided by Creative Commons at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/rdf)
Indicators for R1.2: (meta)data are associated with detailed provenance (https://github.com/RDA-FAIR/FAIR-data-maturity-model-WG/issues/28)
Two new indicators have been proposed:
* Provenance information based on community-specific guidelines relevant for the resource
* NOT based on community-specific guidelines
* Based on community-specific guidelines
* Mapping of object-specific or domain-specific provenance information to a cross-domain language
* NO mapping to general purpose provenance language
* Mapping to general purpose provenance language (e.g. PROV-O)
Indicators for R1.3: (meta)data meet domain-relevant community standards (https://github.com/RDA-FAIR/FAIR-data-maturity-model-WG/issues/29)
Two new indicators have been proposed:
* (Meta)data follows a community standard
* (Meta)data NOT following community standard (e.g. based on a template or schema)
* (Meta)data following community standard (e.g. based on a template or schema)
* Community standard is encoded in machine-understandable language
* No machine-understandable encoding
* Machine-understandable encoding (e.g. XML schema, JSON schema, SHACL etc.)
We would appreciate more opinions from the members of the Working Group, preferably on GitHub at https://github.com/RDA-FAIR/FAIR-data-maturity-model-WG/issues.
Kind regards, Makx Dekkers