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EOSC-Nordic is hosting the one-day workshop "FAIRification of Nordic and Baltic data repositories". The goal is to provide guidelines and specific recommendations for organisations hosting data repositories in order to maximise the reusability of research data hosted by such entities. The importance and added value of FAIRifying data repositories to…

The recording of this webinar is available here. *** Advancing a FAIR data ecosystem will expand opportunities for data-driven and data-enabled research on complex problems. Join us for this four-part series on production and use of  data that is Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR). Webinars will be recorded.  Watch…

The recording of this webinar is available here. *** Advancing a FAIR data ecosystem will expand opportunities for data-driven and data-enabled research on complex problems. Join us for this four-part series on production and use of  data that is Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR). Webinars will be recorded.  Watch…

Valentina Pasquale will give a short presentation about the GO FAIR Data Stewardship Competence Centers Implementation Network during the (virtual) 15th RDA Plenary BoF-session. One of the meeting objectives is the presentation of case studies on professionalising data stewardship. The meeting will take place on 6 April 2020, 7:30 am…

The recording of this webinar is available here. *** Advancing a FAIR data ecosystem will expand opportunities for data-driven and data-enabled research on complex problems. Join us for this four-part series on production and use of  data that is Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR). Webinars will be recorded.  Watch…

The Open Science Conference 2020 is the 7th international conference of the Leibniz Research Alliance Open Science. The annual conference is dedicated to the Open Science movement and provides a unique forum to discuss the latest and future developments in Open Science. One of the confirmed speakers is Elena Giglia…

Join the lecture on FAIR Data and open Science Cloud, that is co-organized by the Ambassador IN, IN-Africa and the International Institute of Social Studies at the ISS in The Hague. Speakers include Mirjam van Reisen (IN Coordinator of the Ambassador IN and IN-Africa), Mariam Basajja (IN Coordinator of the…

On 4-6 March 2020 the hackathon workshop Implémenter les principes FAIR à l’INRAE will take place in Paris. This workshop is targeted at computer scientists and engineers of INRAE, and aims at setting the roots for a coordinated implementation of the FAIR principles in that institute. The workshop will be…

Every three years the German Data Forum (RatSWD), founder of the EcoSoc IN, hosts the Conference for Social and Economic Data, a forum for interdisciplinary exhange on research data issues in Germany. Klaus Tochtermann will be part of the panel discussion "FAIRer Datenzugang für die Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften" (FAIRer access…

The US GO FAIR office organizes another FAIR workshop. In collaboration with our host, the South Big Data Innovation Hub, SDSC and GO FAIR present a professional development workshop: Advancing FAIR and GO FAIR in the U.S.  The 2.5 day event will be held February 25-27 in downtown Atlanta, at…

Starting Tuesday February 18, 2020, the Hogeschool Leiden will run the elective course 'Introduction to FAIR Data Stewardship’. The course has been developed in close collaboration with Erik Schultes (GO FAIR) under the GO TRAIN pillar.  This Dutch course will be given weekly on Tuesdays from 13:00 to 15:30 with…

Luiz Bonino and Erik Schultes will attend the FAIRstifal workshop "Let's GO FAIR" that is part of the Health-RI Conference 2020. Learn more about this conference How is data helping us to remain healthy? How can we learn from today's patients so that tomorrow's patients get better treatment? Leading experts…

Join the first FAIRplus Innovation and SME Forum on 29 January 2020 in Hinxton, UK, to discuss the challenges and opportunities for large companies and SMEs in adopting FAIR data practices.  The IMI FAIRplus project aims to change the way life sciences data is managed and shared. The Innovative Medicine…

On 27-29 January 2020 the 6th CS3 conference (Cloud Storage Services for File Synchronization and Sharing) is taking place in Copenhagen. Erik Schultes will give a presentation on "FAIR Implementation Profiles: Driving Convergence onto an Internet of FAIR Digital Objects" on Tuesday, 28 January 2020.

*** Update: Read the meeting report  Accelerating Convergence in 2020 (link to webpage). *** On 23-24 January 2020 the GO FAIR International Support and Coordination Office (GFISCO) is organising the 2nd International Meeting of Implementation Networks at the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics in Hamburg, with the aim to…

GO FAIR organizes the launch of the DSCC-INT Implementation Network. The meeting will be held at the GO FAIR office in Leiden, The Netherlands. The meeting will start December 18 around lunch time and will end on December 19 after lunch. The provisional agenda will be added as soon as…

Anja Busch will attend the EOSC Symposium 2019, "where the EOSC makers & shakers meet". Detailed information about this event → https://www.eoscsecretariat.eu/eosc-symposium

The GO FAIR International Support and Coordination Office organizes a workshop on “FAIR training and skills” at the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics in Hamburg on 25th November 2019 from 9:00 until 16:00 CET. Objective The objective of the GO TRAIN workshop is to bring together people, concepts…

Barend Mons will give a keynote speech at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia. He will describe the FAIR Principles and show examples of how to implement them. He will also present a set of core FAIR Metrics that can help gauge the level of FAIRness of any digital resource. More…

The 2nd Matrix Development meeting is organized at the GO FAIR office in Leiden, The Netherlands on November 22, 2019 and is by invitation only. Preferred meeting schedule The meeting will start at 10AM and end around 5PM, followed by drinks and bites. Please find here some information on directions to…

You are forming a GO FAIR Implementation Network and need support in drafting your manifesto? The GO FAIR International Support and Coordination office is here to help! You are welcome to drop by in Hamburg at the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics for a Manifesto Writing workshop. We…

The GO FAIR International Support and Coordination Office organizes a GO FAIR workshop on “Semantic Interoperability of Metadata for Cross-Domain Research of the Future” at the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics in Hamburg. The workshop targets primarily members of the GO FAIR implementation networks, but non-members interested in…

The PHT IN organizes a meeting at the GO FAIR office in Leiden, The Netherlands on November 8, 2019. The meeting will start at 11AM and ends at 4PM. Meeting agenda 11:00-12:00 Welcome and updates from members 12:00-12:30 Introduction of Coordination Action 12:30-13:00 Lunch 13:00-14:30 Brainstorming session for the Coordination Action…

Catharina Wasner, Erik Schultes and Luiz Bonino will attend the 14th RDA Plenary Meeting. On Tuesday 22 October 2019 (09:00-12:30) there will be a co-located event on Building a Matrix about the Technologies Used by Research Infrastructures [agenda] at the Harald Herlin Learning Centre, Otaniementie 9, Otaniemi, Espoo which will be open to…

You are forming a GO FAIR Implementation Network and need support in drafting your manifesto? The GO FAIR International Support and Coordination office is here to help! You are welcome to drop by in Hamburg at the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics for a Manifesto Writing workshop. We…

Erik Schultes will give a talk at the Beilstein Open Science Symposium 2019.

On 8 October 2019 both Barend Mons from the GO FAIR office as well as Peter Kraker, coordinator of the Discovery IN, will speak at the workshop Focus on Open Science – Chapter XIX: Gdanks

At the one-day long conference Data Steward education Barend Mons from the Dutch GO FAIR International Support and Coordination Office will give a presentation about "The future belongs to Data Stewards – an International perspective" as well as participate at the panel discussion in the afternoon. Full programme: https://www.deic.dk/da/datamanagement/data-steward-event/program  

Partners of the GO INTER Implementation Network meet to officially kick-off the GO FAIR IN on Cross-Domain Interoperability. This workshop’s major objective is to define action points and draft a roadmap for GO INTER until the end of 2020 and beyond. Read the workshop report (link to news item).

The GO FAIR office in Leiden is organising a meeting introducing a FAIR Funder Implementation Study. This meeting will focus on the challenges that funders face when assessing the quality of FAIR data stewardship plans and the levels of FAIRness of research outputs. In the interest of catalyzing community convergence…

You are forming a GO FAIR Implementation Network and need support in drafting your manifesto? The GO FAIR International Support and Coordination office is here to help! You are welcome to drop by in Hamburg at the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics for a Manifesto Writing workshop. We…

At the CODATA 2019 Conference Erik Schultes will attend the CODATA Matrix panel in the session "Towards next-generation data-driven science: policies, practices and platforms" and give a talk on "Eliminating humans as the primary obstacle to data sharing".

GO FAIR is well represented at the Open Science Fair in Porto. On 16 September 2019, we start off with one workshop and two poster presentations. Peter Kraker, Johana Chylíková, Christian Pietsch, Jochen Schirrwagen, Nataliia Sokolovska and Heinrich Widmann from the Discovery IN offer a workshop about "Data Discovery across Disciplines"…

At the 3rd annual meeting of the Medical Informatics Initiative Germany Klaus Tochtermann will give a keynote speech about "FAIR data management". More information here (link to website; in Germany only)

At the one-day workshop "Implementing FAIR Data for People and Machines: Impacts and Implications" taking place in Washington, DC (USA) GO FAIR  will be represented by Barend Mons, who will give a keynote speech, and Luiz Bonino, who will be one of the speakers in the session "Defining and Measuring…

At the annual meeting of the ecological society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (GfÖ) Silvia Wissel from the GO FAIR International Support and Coordination Office will present the GO FAIR initiative and participate at the panel discussion "FAIR data principles in the scientific publication and funding processes: expected implications for…

Representatives of the universities participating in the IN-Africa will meet in Leiden for an official inauguration of this Implementation Network. One of the targeted activity areas defined by the activity plan of the IN are local services for digital health. This topic is already being tackled by the IN, therefore…

You are forming a GO FAIR Implementation Network and need support in drafting your manifesto? The GO FAIR International Support and Coordination office is here to help! You are welcome to drop by in Hamburg at the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics for a Manifesto Writing workshop. We…

You are forming a GO FAIR Implementation Network and need support in drafting your manifesto? The GO FAIR International Support and Coordination office is here to help! You are welcome to drop by in Hamburg at the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics for a Manifesto Writing workshop. We…

You are forming a GO FAIR Implementation Network and need support in drafting your manifesto? The GO FAIR International Support and Coordination office is here to help! You are welcome to drop by in Hamburg at the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics for a Manifesto Writing workshop. We…

You are forming a GO FAIR Implementation Network and need support in drafting your manifesto? The GO FAIR International Support and Coordination office is here to help! You are welcome to drop by in Hamburg at the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics for a Manifesto Writing workshop. We…

Fidan Limani from the GeRDI IN and Ines Drefs from the GO FAIR International Support and Coordination Office will give a presentation on „FAIR research data management: The use case of GeRDI’s interdisciplinary metadata scheme” at ESRA in Zagreb (Croatia).

At the LIBER 2019 Conference in Dublin Anja Busch will present a poster on "The GO FAIR initiative: An open and inclusive eco-system for FAIR pioneers". More information about the conference: https://liberconference.eu/

You are forming a GO FAIR Implementation Network and need support in drafting your manifesto? The GO FAIR International Support and Coordination office is here to help! You are welcome to drop by in Hamburg at the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics for a Manifesto Writing workshop. We…

Within organizations large and small, public and private, there is growing commitment to implement the FAIR principles. To be effective, FAIR approaches need prioritization, mandates and support and acknowledgment of the work, time, and effort invested in it. The GO FAIR International Support and Coordination Office invites professionals from universities,…

You are forming a GO FAIR Implementation Network and need support in drafting your manifesto? The GO FAIR International Support and Coordination office is here to help! You are welcome to drop by in Hamburg at the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics for a Manifesto Writing workshop. We…

On June 13 (following the ENVRI-FAIR Matrix meeting June 11-12) the GO FAIR Office in Leiden will host a meeting of key Matrix development stakeholders. The purpose of the meeting is to disseminate updates on developments and align efforts going forward (roadmapping with soft and hard deadlines). The Matrix is…

Erik Schultes is one of the speakers at the 2019 P-D-R Workshop FAIRification of External Data: Breaking down the Data Silos. For more information about the agenda and registration click here.

You are forming a GO FAIR Implementation Network and need support in drafting your manifesto? The GO FAIR International Support and Coordination office is here to help! You are welcome to drop by in Hamburg at the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics for a Manifesto Writing workshop. We…

Erik Schultes will present "FAIR and GO FAIR" at the NeIC 2019 – Nordic Infrastructure for Open Science.

The 3rd Germany GOes FAIR Workshop will take place on May 15, 2019 at GESIS in Cologne. More information: https://www.go-fair.org/resources/go-fair-workshop-series/germany-goes-fair-workshops/

Luiz Bonino will give a keynote presentation at the CDISC Europe Interchange Conference. More information: https://www.cdisc.org/2019-cdisc-europe-interchange

Erik Schultes will give a presentation on "EOSC and data reuse: what’s in it for industries and SMEs" at the Focus on Open Science workshop, Chapter XIII: Turin. Detailed progamme can be found here.

"Linking Open Science in Austria" is a workshop jointly organized by OpenAIRE, e-infrastructure Austria Plus, RDA Europe, RDA Austria, GO FAIR, the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research and the Vienna University Library. This two-day workshop aims at connecting researchers, open science facilitators, research facilitators, repository managers, policy…

Erik Schultes will give a presentation about the topic "Community Convergence onto an Internet of FAIR Data and Services" as part of the FAIR data track on Wednesday, April 17, 2019. Visit the website of the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo '19 for more information.  

Ines Drefs will present the GO FAIR Initiative at the first annual INEXDA Workshop on April 9, 2019.

Ines Drefs will present „The GO FAIR Initiative: An Open and Inclusive Eco-system for FAIR Pioneers” on April 4 in the session “Examining Library Initiatives in Open Science”. More information: https://casalini.it/retreat/retreat_2019.asp

Silvia Wissel will present the GO FAIR initiative at the Conquaire Workshop on Data Quality and Reproducibility. See the programme here: http://uni-bielefeld.de/(en)/conquaire/reproducibility-workshop/

Erik Schultes will give a keynote speech on March 27 at the concluding conference of the project "Podman" during the panel 2: “A FAIR funders pilot programme to make it easy for funders to require and for grantees to produce FAIR Data”. Link to programme: https://www.esciences.uni-trier.de/events/event/forschung-datenmanagement-forschungsdatenmanagement-wann-geht-die-gleichung-auf-implementierung-einer-institutionellen-fdm-infrastruktur-und-‑service-landschaft/

Ines Drefs attends GOR19 in Cologne (Germany) to present a poster on "Making Online Research Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR)". GOR is organized by the German Society for Online Research since 1997. Each year more than 300 participants attend the conference to discuss current developments in online research. Main…

GO FAIR's Erik Schultes will give a keynote speech at the “Findable Accessible Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) Hackathon Workshop for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Research Communities” taking place from February 27-28, 2019 in Alexandria, VA, USA. This workshop brings together data scientists and developers (mainly) from the fields of…

Read the PHT IN German Chapter workshop report. *** The GO FAIR initiative invites researchers, care providers, technology developers, industry, standard organizations and policy makers to join the Personal Health Train (PHT) implementation network. The international PHT initiative aims to increase the use of existing biomedical data for research into…

The Data Stewardship Plan – those manifold decisions required to achieve FAIR data – has been identified as a fulcrum enabling the adaption of FAIR best practices among data producers. It is this "Data Stewardship Moment” where technology and standards, the researcher, the publisher, and the funder come together, driving infrastructure developments leading to an Internet of…

On 15-16 January 2019, the GO FAIR International Support and Coordination Office will host the first annual international meeting of GO FAIR Implementation Networks. Since the kick-off meeting in January of this year, GO FAIR has seen the emergence of 30+ implementation networks, now in various stages of development. Collectively,…

Representatives from the 3 Implementation Networks of the GO TRAIN Pillar meet to coordinate activities for 2019. GO TRAIN aims to create a scalable, stakeholder-driven framework to rapidly train large numbers of competent, certified data stewards. Agenda:  12:00-13:00 arrive & lunch (provided by GO FAIR Office) 13:00-13:30 Update on FAIR, GO FAIR, and GO TRAIN 13:30-14:30…

On 14 January 2019, the GO FAIR International Support and Coordination Office hosted the GO TRAIN Pillar meeting.

Making it easy for humans to make metadata for machines Following the Inaugural M4M Workshop (October 15-16 2018, Leiden), members from GO FAIR and RDA are supporting back-2-back M4M Workshops to create machine-actionable metadata for the Preclinical Trials Research Community (#2) and for Scientific Funders (#3). Participants include: members from the Preclinical Trails and Funders communities…

This meeting aims at getting together international interested parties in the Personal Health Train to discuss the formation of a PHT IN, what to focus on and how to collaborate towards these goals.  

Barend Mons will present "Ready, Set, GO FAIR" at the panel discussion "How to implement FAIR data principles" at the EOSC Stakeholder Forum being held from November 21-22. The panel  will be chaired by Elly Dijk (DANS) Panellists include: Sarah Jones (Digital Curation Centre) Barend Mons (GO FAIR Initiative) Eliane…

Erik Schultes will give a keynote lecture on the occasion of the annual GROW Science Day taking place on November 22, 2018 in Maastricht. Theme of the day is "The FAIRytale of Future Science": How will FAIR data management impact science in the future? Download the programme here (link to…

Organizers: Natalia Manola (University of Athens, GR), Andrea Scharnhorst (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, NL), Klaus Tochtermann (ZBW – Dt. Zentralbib. Wirtschaftswissenschaften, DE), Peter Wittenburg (Max Planck Computing and Data Facility – Garching, DE)

Ines Drefs will participate in the panel discussion: “Researcher needs, benefits and challenges in Open Science implementations" at the Focus on Open Science – Chapter X: Vienna . She will furthermore give a poster presentation about the GO FAIR initiative. This conference is organized by Scientific Knowledge Services, the library…

This full day seminar provides an introduction to what the FAIRification of (research) data entails, how it promotes open science (Open by default, closed as necessary) and why this is part of good practice in Data Stewardship. Moreover, new requirements from national and international funders are driving the need for…

Monika Linne will give a presentation on "How to go FAIR?" at the DINI-Jahrestagung 2018.

Ministerial and research representatives of different EU countries meet to move GO FAIR forward at ‘country level’. Click here for a summary of the meeting outcomes.

Klaus Tochtermann will present GO FAIR and explain how to become part of the initiative at the event "Forschungsdatenmanagement – künftige Entwicklungen und aktuelle Fragen der Wissenschaft" organized by the BMBF. Click here to see the agenda.

Klaus Tochtermann will present GO FAIR and explain how to become part of the initiative. For more information visit the website of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). 

The Research Data Alliance and the GO FAIR International Support and Coordination Office are organizing the two-day workshop "Metadata for Machines" (M4M). The workshop's primary objective is to find community consensus on strategic metadata issues. The two main organizers are Peter Wittenburg (RDA) and Erik Schultes (GO FAIR). Subsequent M4M…

Ines Drefs will present a poster on the GO FAIR approach at the DI4R. In this presentation, she shares the GO FAIR office’s experience with building community-specific, pan-European infrastructures based on communities of excellence, so-called Implementation Networks.

Klaus Tochtermann will give a presentation at the ECSS: "Towards the European Open Science Cloud – The role of Computer Science". In this presentation, he will share the experiences made during the German contribution to the European Open Science Cloud, namely the GeRDI project, and during the international GO FAIR…

Monika Linne and Erik Schultes will present the GO FAIR initiative at the Beilstein Open Science Symposium.

Join this workshop on data management organized by ZonMw, DTL, LUMC and GO FAIR to discover new tools for FAIR research data management. In this workshop you will practice with tools for FAIR research data management: the Data Stewardship Wizard and FAIR metrics. For more information and to register, click…

Join this workshop on Building an open training curriculum for FAIR data stewardship organised by Erik Schultes (GO FAIR) and Mateusz Kuzak (DTL) if you are interested in training around FAIR skills. Topics include: Development of a FAIR training curriculum Mission of our GO TRAIN pillar Implementation Networks "FAIR Training…

Barend Mons will sit on the panel P1.2 Open Science: open data, open materials, open methods, and open software at the SciELO 20 Years Conference in São Paulo.

Monika Linne will present the GO FAIR initiative at the open access conference Open-Access-Tage 2018 in Graz, Austria.

Themenschwerpunkte: Vorstellung von GO FAIR & Beteilungsmöglichkeiten an der Initiative, Arbeitsgruppen zu den drei Handlungsfeldern GO BUILD, GO TRAIN, GO CHANGE Link: Agenda Link: Ergebniszusammenfassung

FAIR Data is data that is Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable by computers. This course provides an introduction to the FAIRification of (research) data as part of good practice in Data Stewardship. The course is aimed at information technology and data experts currently employed at research institutions and is instigated…

Klaus Tochtermann: GO FAIR – Eine Initiative zum fairen Umgang mit Forschungsdaten

Workshop: “Anreize und Hürden beim Data Sharing” Monika Linne: Presentation of the GO FAIR initiative

On the 10th of April, many technical experts come together in Leiden for the first time to work on the  general architecture of the PHT infrastructure and discuss the prospects of it.

Much work is currently being done in developing and applying competency frameworks, both in bioinformatics and in data science. In the context of ELIXIR Training, we aim to build on the existing expertise in this area and, together with the training stakeholders, to derive a proper implementation strategy. This international…

Edit Herczog (moderator), Barend Mons, Patti Brennan, Maryann Martone, Jianhui LI, Klaus Tochtermann

On 31 January 2018, the Research Data Alliance (RDA) will organise a webinar ‘Are we FAIR yet?’ The webinar will be presented by Michel Dumontier of Maastricht University. You can register on the RDA website. The webinar will be held on 31 January 2018 at 14:00 UTC and it is co-organised by…

On 28 september 2017 several representatives of the German and Dutch government met in Bonn to discuss the governance of the GO FAIR initiative.  

On 10 March 2017, Professor Karel Luyben (TU Delft) welcomed the ‘Metabolomics GO FAIR Implementation Network’ as community initiative to start the European Open Science Cloud. The network aims to implement the FAIR data principles in the field of metabolomics in Europe.