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FAIRsharing Registry: Connecting data policies, standards and databases RDA WG

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Group Status: WGs Maintaining deliverables (maintenance group)

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status: Completed

Chair (s): Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Peter McQuilton, Simon Hodson, Holly Murray, Graham Smith, Allyson Lister, Rebecca Taylor-Grant

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Secretariat Liaison: [field_secretariat_liaison]


 

OUTPUTS

Completed and RDA-endorsed

  1. FAIRsharing registry - A curated, informative and educational registry of interlinked descriptions of (i) standards (to identify, report, and cite data and metadata), (ii) repositories (databases, knowledgebases), and (iii) journal publisher and funder data policies in all disciplines. FAIRsharing guides consumers to discover, select and use these resources with confidence, and producers to make their resources more visible, widely adopoted and cited.
  2. Recommendations - A two pages summary to provide guidance to users and producers of standards and repositories, describing how they can best select and describe these resources, and advice to policy makers on how they can best recommend these resources in their data policies.

RELATED ONGOING ACTIVITIES

To promote further adoption and drive improvement of the adopted FAIRsharing registry, the WG contributes to a number of activities with other RDA groups; these activities reflect the requests and needs of the community, and are open and inclusive for all stakeholders. The WG community network encompasses repositories mantainers and developers, standard-developing organizations, journals and journal publishers, funders, librarians, data stewards, and other scholarly organizations and alliances.

Current ongoing activities are listed below.

  1. Creation of educational material via the FAIRsharing Community Champions Programme
    • This activity is supported by the RDA/EOSC-Future Ambassadorship to Allyson Lister and will drawn upon the collective domain expertise within the RDA to build a network of community curators who will (1) act as advocates to promote the value of standards, databases and policies; (2) create educational material describing these resources and who FAIRsharing registry help; and (3) enrich the content of FAIRsharing, adding and enhancing the description of these resources.
  2. Alignment of data policy from funders and publishers
    • This activity is a collaboration with the RDA Research Funders and Stakeholders on Open Research and Data Management and Practices IG, and the Data Policy Standardization and Implementation IG. The objective is to provide recommendation on how to improve this alignment, and to identify a common set of policy metadata features all stakeholders want to see implemented the FAIRsharing registry.
  3. Mapping repositories features across initiatives
    • This activity is a collaboration with the Data Repository Attributes WG, formed, as result of a discussion session the RDA FAIRsharing WG run at Plenary 17, where we brought together a number of stakeholders that have defined features and criteria to certify repositories, guide their selections, and define good practice. This new group will identify a common set of repository metadata features all stakeholders want to see implemented also registries, such as FAIRsharing.

ADOPTERS

Major organizations

Here a partial list of organisations that have adopted and recommend FAIRsharing. It is pratically impossible to keep a list of all adopters and users as they encompass all stakeholders groups, such as funding agencies, scholarly publishers, standards organizations, librarians, infrastructure programmes, universities and projects, as well as researchers from academia, industry and governmental bodies.

If you want to know more about adopting or collaborating with FAIRsharing, please contact us.

 

Examples of doption stories

 

Selection of official reports from funders and other organizations

These reports recommend FAIRsharing for standards, repositories and data policies:

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RDA Plenary P20th, 21st-23th Mar 2022

We will present at, and co-organized, several sessions and workshops (pre-post and during the Plenary) where we provide updates on the FAIRsharing WG activities.

 

RDA Plenary P18th, 3rd-11th Nov 2021, virtual

 

We have co-organized a session which continues the work on aligning funders and publisher policies, also to improve the way policies are described in FAIRsharing. 

 

Activities at previous Plenary

RDA Plenary P17th, 20th-23rd April 2021, Edinburgh (virtual)

We have (co)organized one session, listed below, which are intented to help improve the metadata descriptors for repositories and policies in the FAIRsharing registry, through the work of existing initiatives and by listening to the needs of all stakeholders.

RDA Plenary P16th, 9th-12nd November 2020, Costa Rica (virtual)

The FAIRsharing WG will present at the session on Thursday, 12 November (breakout 8) run by the Research Funders and Stakeholders on Open Research and Data Management Policies and Practices IG

RDA Plenary P14th, 23rd-25th October 2019, Helsinki, Finland

The FAIRsharing WG was involved in and presented at a number of RDA and pre-RDA sessions

Pre-RDA FAIRsFAIR meeting

RDA P14

RDA Plenary 12th, 5th-7th November 2018, Gaborone, Botswana

The FAIRsharing WG was involved in a number of RDA and pre-RDA sessions.

Monday 5th November

Tuesday 6th November

Wednesday 7th November

Please don't hesitate to contact us on contact@fairsharing.org if you would like to arrange to talk to us at the plenary or to invite one of our representatives to your session.

RDA Plenary 11th, 21st-23rd March 2018, Berlin, Germany

FAIRsharing was involved in a number of RDA and pre-RDA sessions:

RDA Plenary 10th, 17th-21st September 2017, Montreal, Canada

Sunday 17th September - Monday 18th September

  • Interest Group on Agricultural Data (IGAD) Pre-Plenary meeting - slides available here

Tuesday 19th September

Wednesday 20th September

Thursday 21st September

RDA Plenary 9th, 5-7th April 2017, Barcelona, Spain

Monday 3rd - Tuesday 4th April

Wednesday 5th April

Thursday 6th April

RDA Plenary 8th and IDW, 11-17th September 2016, Denver, USA

We co-organized and presented at the following sessions:

RDA pre-Plenary 8th

  • Pre-defined Recommendations: A core-set of resources (databases and/or standards) that have been selected and recommended by relevant groups or organizations. 
  • Wizard Tool (beta): The wizard guides users step-by-step through the resources captured in FAIRsharing. 
  • FAIRsharing Standards Registry Survey: We have just closed our FAIRsharing Standards Registry survey, where we have assessed your needs for a registry of data/content standards in the life, environmental and biomedical sciences. We have had over 530 responses. We're now analysing the survey and will shortly publicize an executive summary of the results, along with the raw data.

RDA Plenary 7th

Where we presented

Activities pre-plenary 7

To prioritize FAIRsharing registry's content and capabilities, in a way most appropriate to your needs, we have run a 10 questions survey and received 530 replies!

Here you can see a 3 slides update on our progresses to date.

RDA Plenary 6th

Presentations

Thank-you for your feedback at the 6th Plenary meeting in Paris. It was great to catch up with everyone and to hear about the innovative and challenging work everyone is doing. If you didn’t manage to catch us at the meeting, our slides and our leaflet are available on Slideshare, as follows:

Where we presented

RDA pre-Plenary 6th

Help us prioritize improvements to FAIRsharing's capabilities as a Standards Information Resource, in a way most appropriate to your needs. ​Take a few minutes to answer few questions, please!

RDA Plenary 5th

 RDA Plenary 4th

RDA Plenary 3rd

Plenary participation

13
December
2022

Community Engagement That Works! Examining tools and success stories of pathways to Engagement in Community-led organisations at a global level

 

21
October
2022

Bringing the RDA Community to your Community

The programme is divided into four parts:

 

1. The RDA Community: This will begin with an overview of community groups, outputs and adoption stories together with how the community can contribute to the 10th anniversary RDA celebrations during 2023. Next, a dicussion of the collaborations between RDA Europe and EOSC Future via the ambassadorship programme and other highlights of RDA's engagement work.

2. Use Case: FAIRsharing Community Curation Programme / Ambassadorship: This will discuss how engagement with the RDA, and participation in the RDA / EOSC Future Domain Ambassador programme has benefited the FAIRsharing community and enhances engagement.

3. Use Cases: RDA / EOSC Ambassadorships: Current and former ambassadors will give presentations about their experiences and how the ambassadorships have affected the communities they serve.

4. Building Community Ties (Panel and Q&A): Use cases from the IGs and WGs that have contributed to this session about how the communities they represent engage with the RDA and, more importantly, how they bring the RDA and its outputs back to their communities. What are the challenges faced? How usable are RDA outputs, and how can we increase their practical implementation and learn about groups and communities who have successfully implemented them? After the IGs/WGs have provided their perspective, the audience will be encouraged to share their own adoption stories, and then a general Q&A will cover ideas for increasing usage of RDA outputs.

26
January
2021

Repository features across initiatives: mapping the landscape

 

When: RDA Plenary P17th, Breakout 1, Tues 20th April, 10:15-11:45 UTC

 

27
June
2019

Criteria for repository selection, qualification and certification

  1. Introduction, scope of the meeting (5 mins; Peter McQuilton)

27
June
2019

Metadata for FAIR Data

Collaborative session notes: https://docs.google.com/docu