Overview and role of FAIRsharing in the FAIR-enabling ecosystem of tools and services

1. Susanna-Assunta Sansone
(on behalf of the co-chairs and the FAIRsharing Team)
Associate Professor, Department of Engineering Science
Associate Director, Oxford e-Research Centre
University of Oxford, UK
International Data Week, Botswana, November 2018

2. Working Groups outputs:
1. A registry of curated and interlinked records on
o standards (for identifying, reporting, and citing data and metadata),
o databases, repositories (and knowledge-bases) and
o data policies (from journals, publishers, funders and other
organizations)
2. Related recommendations
o to guide users and the producers of standards and databases to select
and describe these resources, or to recommend them in data policies

4. It is not just a registry, because it offers
tools and services, and
provides content for and interoperates with
other FAIR-supportive tools and services

5. Accelerate the discovery, selection and use of these resources
Increase their visibility, reuse, adoption and citation

6. Classifying records to maximize
discoverability and retrievalSubject Resource
Application Ontology

7. Databases and
data repositories
Community standards,
focusing on metadata and identifier schemas
Formats Terminologies Guidelines
Interlinking standards, databases, repositories
and data policies
Data policies
by funders, journals and
other organizations
Identifiers
Ready for use, implementation, or recommendation
In development
Status uncertain
Deprecated as subsumed or superseded
All records are manually curated
in-house, verified and claimed by the
community behind each resource

8. Tracking evolution

9. Tracking evolution

10. Example of a record describing
a data resource

13. Examples of use and adoption

18. Top 30 resources recommended by
journals/publishers
Totals: 184 databases recommended, 33 standards
Most recommendations for a database 13
Most recommendations for a standard 9

19. A core element of the
FAIR ecosystem

20. A set of principles to
enhance the value of all
digital resources
Developed and endorsed by researchers,
service providers, publishers, funding agencies,
industry partners; including but not limited to
individuals part of:

21. Ensures that standards, databases, repositories, policies are:
• Findable, e.g., by providing DOIs, functionality to register, claim, maintain,
interlink, classify, search and discover them
• Accessible, e.g., identifying their level of openness and/or licence type
• Interoperable, e.g., highlighting which repositories implement the same
standards to structure and exchange data
• Reusable, e.g., knowing the coverage of a standard and its level of
endorsement by a number of repositories should encourage its use or
extension in neighbouring domains, rather than reinvention
FAIRsharing enables the FAIR principles

22. Two tools to be launched as part of an
EOSC project

23. • FAIRsharing works with the FAIR metrics WG to serve as:
• Registry to describe digital assets, such as databases/repositories, standards,
policies, enhancing their discoverability (schema.org), citability (DOIs)
• Look up service for identifier schemas and standards (phase 1: now)
• Validation service against metadata standards (phase 2: planned)
FAIRsharing and the FAIRmetrics
FAIRmetrics.org
also part of:
A proposed core set of 14 semi-quantitative metrics
(measurable indicators) for the evaluation of FAIRness

24. • FAIRsharing interoperates with FAIR assessment tools, such as:
• FAIRshake
• FAIR Evaluator
FAIRsharing and the FAIR assessment
FAIRmetrics.org
also part of:

25. Pre-print at: https://doi.org/10.1101/245183
Authored by 68 authors, representing the FAIRsharing community of
core adopters, advisory board members, and key collaborator, who are
stakeholders from academia, industry, funding agencies, standards
organizations, infrastructure providers and scholarly publishers
RDA FAIRsharing WG:
https://rd-alliance.org/group/fairsharing-registry-connecting-
data-policies-standards-databases.html
Contact FAIRsharing Team:
email: contact@fairsharing.org twitter: @fairsharing_org