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Participants from several countries will join experts on research data management in Vienna this October to learn about FAIR practices and data stewardship. The week of workshops will mark the beginning of the new certificate course “Data Steward” offered by the University of Vienna. Continuing Education in the Field of…
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The Polish Chapter of the Data Stewardship Competence Centers IN won the “Irmgard Lankenau Poster Prize” at the 42nd Annual Conference of the International Association of University Libraries. The poster introduces the mission of the chapter, its structure, communication tools and current activities of the Polish Chapter. In their poster…
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The GO FAIR Implementation Network GO Unite! is an interactive forum of the Data Stewardship Competence Centers (DSCC) in which the German research data management (RDM) community connects with each other across disciplines. The contents of GO Unite! are provided by the community and are defined and processed beyond formal…
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Authors: Christiane Stork (Center for Research Data Management – TU WIEN), Samah Jaber (FAIR Office Austria – TU WIEN) & Tereza Kalová (FAIR Office Austria – University of Vienna) The Training Task Force of the FAIR Data Austria project has created an Open Educational Resources (OER) package for Research Data…
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DeiC is launching the Danish GO FAIR office on Monday, 13 June 2022, 14.30 – 16.00, with presentations of the GO FAIR International Support and Coordination Office (GFISCO) and the initiatives and offers by the Danish GO FAIR Office to support implementation of the FAIR Principles in practice in Denmark.…
Read moreArticle written by Samah Jaber, FAIR Office Austria The work on DAMAP and the FAIR Data Austria (FDA) project are featured in an implementation story published by the FAIRsFAIR project. The work supports “Turning FAIR into Reality” as recommended in the EC Expert Group on FAIR report. The FAIRsFAIR Implementation…
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This article was written by Graziella Galinari (Embrapa Digital Agriculture). The thematic network dedicated to promoting the governance and management of Brazilian agricultural data, the GO FAIR Agro Brazil Network, was officially launched on April 12, 2022 during a virtual event that brought together 130 professionals from the agricultural sciences,…
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This article was written by Obinna Osigwe, and was originally published on 15 April 2022 on the VODAN Africa website. VODAN-Africa Health System is being deployed across 88 health facilities in 8 African countries. The leadership of the VODAN-Africa project decided this in its Tuesday meeting on April 12th, 2022.…
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Article written by Samah Jaber, FAIR Office Austria On Wednesday 23 March 2022, more than 45 participants, many of them researchers from the health domain, took the opportunity to learn about managing sensitive data. Image: license-free, Pexels In the two-hour webinar, speakers from SBA Research, FAIR Office Austria and TU…
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This article was written by Melissa Cragin from the US GO FAIR office. Across four sessions in February and March, the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and GO FAIR US held the FAIR for US workshop. Designed to gather broad community input to inform directions and priorities for FAIR capacity…
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The FDO Forum published its March 2022 Bulletin. Check it out, and learn about its recent activities, and how to get engaged:
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GO FAIR Brazil reports: From the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (IBICT): CRIS (Current Research Information Systems) aim to aggregate information from different databases to provide reports and consolidated data for researchers to analyse. The BrCris project is developing a CRIS platform to provide tools for the…
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This article was written by Kevin Coakley and Alexandra Andreiu. It was published on 28 January 2022 on the GO FAIR US website. The “r” in FAIR— which stands for reusable— has always been confused with reproducibility. Although the two have different meanings and usable definitions, they are indeed closely…
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Toward an international Biodiversity essential variables data implementation framework as a new BiodiFAIRse roadmap for the GOSC initiative Faced with the biodiversity crisis and its impact on humanity (see Cardinale et al., 2012), a new GOSC case study proposal will capitalize on the first (2019-2021) BiodiFAIRse investigation (see slides from…
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The official inauguration of the Polish Working Group of the Data Stewardship Competence Centers Implementation Network (DSCC-IN PL) took place on 03 December 2021. The workshop was an accompanying event for the 5th edition of the Pomeranian Open Science Conference held in Gdańsk (Poland) on 02 December 2021. The conference,…
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Don't miss the December edition of the GO FAIR US newsletter! In this month's edition you will learn about a new training resource developed by Earthcube that will help researchers to make their materials more FAIR. You will also get to know to the GO BUILD Pillar Chairs in the…
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On 21 October 2021, the second GO Unite! meeting of 2021 took place. 42 participants from different local, institutional, and domain-specific research data management institutions gathered to talk about the activities of the three GO Unite! working groups and to discuss about new common requirements, topics and challenges of the…
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Karla Avanço, one of the IN Coordinators from the CO-OPERAS IN, reports in her blog post on The road to FAIR from a training session on how to make data FAIR in the Social Sciences and Humanities. This Triple project training took place on 15 September 2021, and was presented…
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Article written by Barbara Sánchez and Maximilian Moser, both TU Wien Center for Research Data Management. TU Wien together with the Graz University of Technology and the University of Vienna host the FAIR Office Austria. Since Zenodo established itself as a very popular research data repository, interest in hosting their…
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Article written by Maria Pawlowska, member of the DSCC IN Last year, with considerable help from the GO FAIR International Support and Coordination office, we were thrilled to be able to organize the first edition of the Polish Data Steward School. The 12 data stewards we trained then are already…
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Check out the most recent addition to GO FAIR’s Implementation Networks: FAIR Digital Objects (FDO) Forum IN. The FDO Forum IN is a group of international experts from relevant research institutions and infrastructure initiatives committed to specify FAIR Digital Objects (FDO) and its components and to foster the implementation of…
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San Diego Supercomputer Center’s (SDSC) Research Data Services (RDS) Chief Strategist Melissa Cragin (principal investigator) and RDS Division Director Christine Kirkpatrick (co-principal investigator) were recently awarded a grant by the National Science Foundation to fund a GO FAIR symposium in the next several months. The production of FAIR (Findable, Accessible,…
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The CO-OPERAS Implementation Network is continusly making an effort to reach the FAIR community. Focusing on scholarly communication in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) domain, the CO-OPERAS has recently released a preprint version of a paper on Zenodo and launched a blog. The paper FAIRifying a scholarly publishing service:…
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Erik Schultes introduced the FAIR Implementation Profile (FIP) in a three-part video series produced by MyScienceWork. Part 1: Introduction and story behind the FIP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQGzMQ0K1qE Part 2: Role of a FIP and FIP as FAIR convergence driver https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdnTuAPy2Ds Part 3: Design and optimisation of FIPs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY67g7ai1zU More about the FAIR…
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Global challenges and current crises show the importance of findable, accessible and reusable data. This June, the GO FAIR Initiative gathered the international community for a three-day exchange on research data management: 573 international experts from science, infrastructure development, and science policy from more than 28 countries met at the…
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Frontiers’ Policy Labs hosts a series of in-depth expert conversations to explore how science can enable better decision-making for policy. The interviews with leading figures in science and policy are led by Jean-Claude Burgelman, Editor in Chief of Frontiers’ Policy Labs. The first two episodes of this podcast focus on…
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Researchers from VODAN Africa drafted the article "Design of a FAIR digital data health infrastructure in Africa for COVID-19 reporting and research" that was published on 11 June 2021 in Advanced Genetics. Obinna Osigwe, VODAN Africa Communications lead and member of the VODAN IN, shares some insights about the article,…
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FAIR Digital Objects (FDOs) are emerging as a promising generic approach to solving the interoperability problem of linking data from different domains. However, there is a lack of a widely accepted technical specification of the concept as well as community-driven show cases. In the context of the emerging FDO Forum…
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The AdvancedNano IN published a video to explain how you can make nano saftey data FAIR and, if interested, how to join their IN. If you struggle with the re-usability of your data, watch this video to learn how the FAIR guiding principles could lead your way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHexNJZ9eQo
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The GO FAIR US office hosted a Data Stewardship Interest Group Meeting on 30 April 2021 that gathered about 70 participants from organisations from around the globe. Visit the GO FAIR US website to learn more about this meeting. Chris Erdmann is giving an overview about what's been discussed and…
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GO UNITE! – formerly known as GO UNI – is the German Chapter of the GO FAIR Implementation Network Data Stewardship Competence Centers (DSCC). In the past there have been several misunderstandings regarding the mission and the target group of the German DSCC chapter, caused by its name “GO UNI”.…
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Collectively referred to as Data Together, the four collaborating international data organisations – CODATA, GO FAIR, RDA, WDS – have a joint commitment (published in March 2020) to work together to optimise the global research data ecosystem and to identify opportunities that will trigger federated infrastructures to service the new…
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On 11 February 2021 around 60 participants gathered for the strategy meeting of GO UNI. Their credo: pragmatic – concrete – community-driven. Based on this credo GO UNI creates a forum under the umbrella of the GO FAIR Data Stewardship Competence Centers Implementation Network (DSCC IN). In this forum Germany-based…
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On 22 January 2021 and 01 February 2021, Chris Erdmann from the US GO FAIR office presented on the topic of “FAIR Data & Software in the Scholarly Communications Lifecycle” to dkNET and the Research Triangle Institute (RTI). The presentation is a slimmed down version of a much longer session…
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EOSC-Pillar recently interviewed Klaus Tochtermann about most recent developments of the National Research Data Infrastructure in the context of the European Open Science Cloud. In the interview, he highlights: The NFDI is intended to become a federated research data infrastructure at the national level and is thus the most important…
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More than 1,100 representatives from 71 countries met virtually for an exchange about research data management and discussed the future of data-based science Research data management in the future means that research data and objects can be reused across disciplinary and geographical boundaries. What the design of a framework for…
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The recent open access publication about research data management, "Praxishandbuch Forschungsdatenmanagement" edited by Markus Putnings, Heike Neuroth (GO FAIR Steering Committee member) and Janna Neumann includes an article about the GO FAIR initiative, GO CHANGE and the EcoSoc IN (in German only): GO FAIR und GO CHANGE: Chancen für das…
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Members of the CO-OPERAS IN recently participated in two conferences advancing the conversation about a FAIR continuum for the social sciences and humanities (SSH) data and publications: The OPERAS conference (2-4 November 2020) about “Opening up Social Sciences and Humanities in Europe: From Promises to Reality” enabled discussions about the…
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Recently, members of the Food Systems IN co-authored two articles: On 11 December 2020, the practice paper “39 Hints to Facilitate the Use of Semantics for Data on Agriculture and Nutrition” appeared in the Data Science Journal . It is co-authored by Caterina Caracciolo, Sophie Aubin, Clement Jonquet, Romain David,…
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The Personal Health Train was awarded the Dutch Computable Award 2020 in the category “Care project”. The PHT consortium, being also a GO FAIR Implementation Network, collaborates with other partners to develop an infrastructure where personal data will be securely shared and documented. It is a distributed infrastructure that enables…
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On 11 December 2020 the article “An Academic Publishers’ GO FAIR Implementation Network” by Jan Velterop and Erik Schultes, GO FAIR International Science Coordinator, was published in IOS Press. In this article the authors present a proposal for academic publishers to get involved in formulating protocols and standards to make…
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On 14 December 2020 members of the EcoSoc IN published the White Paper on implementing the FAIR principles for data in the Social, Behavioural, and Economic Sciences. The authors are Noemi Betancort Cabrera, Elke C. Bongartz, Nora Dörrenbächer, Jan Goebel, Harald Kaluza, and Pascal Siegers. Read it on the KonsortSWD…
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More than 700 international experts from all over the world meet at the International FAIR Convergence Symposium – GO FAIR and CODATA organise a six-day digital exchange on research data management in the future Between 27 November and 04 December 2020 scientists, data experts, developers for infrastructures and decision makers…
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On 15 October 2020 the European Commission and EOSC Executive Board published a new EU publication, “Six Recommendations for implementation of FAIR practice” by the FAIR in practice task force of the European open science cloud FAIR working group. In this report the state of FAIR practices within various research…
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Blair Johnston, co-coordinator of the AdvancedNano IN reports: The AdvancedNano IN will assist the science-based risk governance of manufactured nanomaterials (MNMs) and other advanced material formulations, including the elucidation of the mode of action, grouping, read-across, development of quantitative structure-activity relationships, and Safe-by-Design aspects of nano and advanced material production…
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In preparation for the International FAIR Convergence Symposium, a set of early-mover FAIR communities from the Social Sciences, Geo Sciences, Chemistry, Materials, Environmental Sciences, Oceanography, and Biodiversity are participating in a series of FIP-Convergence Workshops where they first produce, under guidance and with novel tools, Community FAIR Implementation Profile. Afterward,…
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This short report was written by Mirjam van Reisen (IN Coordinator of both IN-Africa and Ambassadors IN, VODAN IN member) & Francisca Oladipo (VODAN IN member). GO FAIR moved from a theoretical concept to an implementation programme when the Covid-19 pandemic ravaged around the globe. There were several big issues…
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On 1-2 July 2020 the GO FAIR Implementation Network on "Cross-Domain Interoperability of Heterogeneous Research Data (GO Inter)" organised a hackathon on FAIR digital objects (FDO) and FAIRsemantics. This hackathon has been a follow-up of the May hackathon on implementing the FDO concept to cross-domain interoperability use cases, and it…
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For the concrete implementation of a professional research data management, different approaches are chosen at German universities, which are geared to the university-specific needs, and organizational structures and cultures. Here the wheel is often reinvented instead of building on existing and reusable solutions. Both the building and the establishment of…
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On 27-28 August 2020 the US GO FAIR Office organised a FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) lesson global sprint through CarpentryCon @ Home together with partners from around the world. Participants from 21 institutions and 11 countries took part in this Library Carpentry FAIR Data & Software lesson sprint whose…
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After the successful deployment of seven machine-actionable FAIR Data Points in Africa, a test to execute a machine-based querying of FAIR Data Points across continents between Leiden University Medical Center and Kampala International University was successful. Mirjam van Reisen (IN Coordinator of IN-Africa and one of the coordinators of the…
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Maria Pawlowska and her colleagues in the Polish Chapter of the Data Stewardship Competence Centers Implementation Network (DSCC IN), are in the midst of conducting a 1-week Data Stewardship School (September 14-18) as a way to kick-start a Polish Data Stewards Community. This 1-week training is viewed as "ground zero” for launching national…
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We have the pleasure to announce that the GO FAIR Brazil Health Nursing Network will be launched on September 22nd, 2020 at 3:00 pm Brazilian time. This event is part of the 130th anniversary celebrations of the Alfredo Pinto School of Nursing – the first nursing school in Brazil. The…
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Kampala International University, Stanford University, Leiden University and GO FAIR receive funding from Google.org for implementing data sharing standards and platforms for disease modeling for institutions across Uganda, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Kenya, Tunisia and Zimbabwe. The goal is to better monitor and forecast the spread of COVID-19. Link to the Google…
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On August 31, the LUMC FAIR Data Point went on line, and two days later on September 2, a Technical Session was held between Leiden University Medical Center and VODAN Africa teams to initiate the discussions leading to the documentation of specifications for the VODAN FDP and the demonstration of…
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The Personal Health Train (PHT) is one of the last five nominees for the prestigious Dutch Computable Awards 2020, in the care project cluster. The PHT consortium, being also a GO FAIR Implementation Network, collaborates with other partners to develop an infrastructure where personal data will be securely shared and documented. It is…
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Arnaud Gingold from the CO-OPERAS IN reports: The CO-OPERAS IN published the reports of all the workshops organized in the past year on the topic of “FAIR data for Social Sciences and Humanities” on Zenodo: As a first step of its roadmap, CO-OPERAS intended to listen to the communities through…
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On 11 August 2020 the third COVID-19 FAIR Data Point (FDP) was successfully installed in Nigeria at the Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University by the VODAN Africa team. This FDP is the second one in Nigeria, and the third VODAN-in-a-Box deployed in Africa. Next COVID-19 FAIR Data Points are to be…
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The Kampala International University issued the following press release on Thursday, August 4, 2020: VODAN in a Box Strengthens South-South Cooperation on COVID-19 Control In a two-hour session hosted by Charles Kahiro and Ivy Wachira of Ravel Works, Africa, and witnessed by 33 participants which consist of Data Stewards and…
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Giovanni Pizzi, IN Coordinator of the Materials Cloud IN, and collaborators successfully held a virtual tutorial for AiiDA and the Materials Cloud that attracted 85 participants from all over the world. Materials were made available: Videos, tutorial text, "Quantum Mobile" virtual machine Full report
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After the FAIR Data Stewardship Course earlier this year, Hogeschool Leiden and the GO FAIR Foundation are setting up the next iteration of this “Introduction to FAIR Data Stewardship” course for October – November 2020. The course will be offered at the Hogeschool Leiden (in Dutch), as well as online…
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COVID-19 Computer-Readable Observational Data Installed at Kampala International University Following the press release from the Kampala International University, history was made today at 14:14 CET on 22 July 2020 as the first COVID-19 Computer-Readable FAIR Data point of Observational Data was installed in Uganda, Africa. The installation was carried out…
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The International FAIR Convergence Symposium will now take place as a fully virtual event from 27 November to o4 December. Please save the dates! In order to facilitate the new approach, and in response to a number of enquiries, we have also extended the deadline for submissions of session proposals…
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Check out the most recent addition to GO FAIR’s Implementation Networks: AdvancedNano IN. This Implementation Network actively supports the implementation of the FAIR principles in the current nano-EHS databases, i.e. data on NM physicochemical characteristics, release and exposure, toxicity and functionality. Its main objective is to take new and ground-breaking…
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Under the severe conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world looks to data for answers. The request for data is urgent and demanding, as policy makers seek to identify life-saving patterns and forecast trends to better advise on interventions. From medical charts that record the disease progression in individual COVID…
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Making it easy for humans to make metadata for machines On June 26, the Danish e-Infrastructure Cooperation (DeiC), in cooperation with the GO FAIR Foundation, launched two Metadata for Machine workshops on behalf of two research communities seeking to upgrade the FAIRness of research data. The workshops are conducted via teleconference…
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The European Medical Writers Association published an article by Erik Schultes in the Medical Writing Journal titled "A role for medical writers in overcoming commonly held misconceptions around FAIR Data" in their issue The data economy. Abstract: "More and more, computers must participate with physicians and patients as trusted partners in assessing…
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By Francisca Oladipo and Mirjam van Reisen As the COVID-19 pandemic ran riot around the world, and was gradually making inroads into Africa, a new partnership developed to address the current and immediate challenges faced in the continent using a different kind of science: the science of FAIR Data. VODAN…
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A challenging issue as regards implementing FAIR is the question of how the process of creating interoperable research data can be made as simple as possible. The FAIR Digital Object (FDO) concept seems to emerge as a promising approach to solving the problem. However, reference implementations and show cases are…
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GO FAIR welcomes a new Implementation Network: the Materials Cloud IN. The Materials Cloud IN is committed to provide suitable tools to assist researchers to make their work FAIR and help them in adopting best practices and common formats. The effort to make simulations FAIR cannot be applied “a posteriori” after these…
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*** Update: The FAIR Convergence Symposium will take place from 27 November to 04 December 2020 as a fully virtual event. The deadline for session proposals is 30 September 2020, and for posters and lightning talks 31 October 2020. All up-to-date information can be found here. *** The Call for…
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Since its creation representatives of the GO FAIR Food Systems Implementation Network have been working on several initiatives to advance the implementation of FAIR in the Food Systems domain. Until now they have identified and aligned themselves with several existing initiatives on FAIR implementation and have created a list of…
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Article written by Nora Dörrenbächer & Mathias Bug, German Data Forum (RatSWD), institutional member of the EcoSoc IN The eighth conference for social and economic data (8| KSWD) took place in Berlin from 02-03 March, 2020. With the motto “Society needs Science, Science needs Data,” the German Data Forum (RatSWD)…
Read moreEOSC-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…
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Wilco Zuijderduijn is the first of his class at Hogeschool Leiden to pass exams in the elective course ‘Introduction to FAIR Data Stewardship’. Pictured here is Wilco (right), course instructor Mischa Barthel (left) and GO FAIR Science Coordinator Erik Schultes (right corner) who was consultant in the curriculum preparation. These…
Read moreThe 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…
Read moreThe 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…
Read moreValentina 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…
Read moreThe 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…
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GO FAIR Virus Outbreak Data Network (VODAN) as one of the COVID-19 related activities of the Data Together organisations The COVID-19 pandemic presents a major test for our science system and our research and data infrastructures. The Data Together organisations -comprising CODATA, GO FAIR, RDA and WDS- jointly contend that it…
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GO FAIR together with the Committee on Data (CODATA), Research Data Alliance (RDA), and World Data Systems (WDS) (the four major international data organisations), are pleased to outline their joint commitment to work together to optimise the global research data ecosystem and to identify the opportunities and needs that will…
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The spread of the virus causing the COVID-19 outbreak affects the whole world. Virus outbreaks like these ask for an optimisation of data management and data reuse from which we all can benefit during future outbreaks too. Access to the immensely valuable data of past and current epidemics is not…
Read moreThe 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…
Read moreJoin 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…
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Check out the 6th edition of the GO FAIR Newsletter for the months of March to April 2020! Discover our new Implementation Networks FAIR Microbiome, Marine Data Centres & GO NANOFAB IN Read about the 2nd IN Meeting and FAIR Digital Object hackathon in Hamburg Learn about the FAIR Digital…
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Check out the most recent addition to GO FAIR’s Implementation Networks: GO NANOFAB. This Implementation Network (IN) aims to work towards improving capabilities for capturing, storing and making accessible data, parameters and workflows from nanofabrication (NF) process chains by using the FAIR approach. The IN will provide a forum for…
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GO FAIR welcomes a new Implementation Network: the Marine Data Centres IN. This Implementation Network is launched by the SeaDataNet consortium, which is a community of more than 50 partners from 35 countries in and around Europe managing access to large collections of data derived in situ of the seas and oceans.…
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Read more about a new GO FAIR Implementation Network: FAIR Microbiome IN. The cross-cutting nature of microbiome research in environmental sciences, health, agriculture, energy, and natural and built environments requires the development of new solutions and community coordination to tackle grand challenges that will accelerate basic discovery and lead to transformative…
Read moreOn 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…
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Powered by the growing interest in FAIR Digital Objects as a minimal standard for FAIR data and services, GO FAIR convened a one and half day hackathon to create a prototype FAIR Digital Object for molecular structure (results on GitHub). Given the complexity and ubiquity of chemical information throughout science…
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From its inception, the GO FAIR Community has been committed to working together to build components for an Internet of FAIR Data and Services (IFDS). The GO FAIR International Support and Coordination Office does just this, supporting and coordinating community initiatives on FAIR implementations. At the 2nd Annual GO FAIR…
Read moreEvery 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…
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It is irresponsible to support research but not data stewardship, says Barend Mons. Article by Barend Mons Many of the world’s hardest problems can be tackled only with data-intensive, computer-assisted research. And I’d speculate that the vast majority of research data are never published. Huge sums of taxpayer funds go…
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Article written by Mirjam van Reisen, IN-Africa Coordinator Axum, the cradle of civilisation, is located In Ethiopia, a country of 105 million people. Today its President Abija is acknowledged as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019. In Axum, one of the earliest trading hubs known to mankind,…
Read moreThe 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…
Read moreStarting 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…
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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…
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The Data Intelligence published a special issue on emerging FAIR implementation choices and challenges, a compilation devoted to community efforts around FAIR practices which is co-edited by Barend Mons, Erik Schultes and Annika Jacobsen. It was published on the Data Intelligence Journal webpage at the beginning of December 2019 and…
Read moreLuiz 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…
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At the end of January, nine major networks of research-intensive universities came together in Paris during the international Research Data Rights Summit at the Sorbonne University, representing over 160 of the main research-intensive universities worldwide. During this summit, the Sorbonne declaration on research data rights rights was signed. This declaration encourages…
Read moreJoin 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…
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At the 2nd Annual GO FAIR Implementation network meeting in Hamburg the GO FAIR community refocused efforts towards convergence. Convergence is needed to bring together domain-specific approaches on data and infrastructures as well as experiences in training and education which enables the adoption and extension of existing practices and solutions.…
Read moreOn 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.
Read more*** 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…
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On December 18-19, 2019 colleagues from Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, and the USA met for an official launch of the Data Stewardship Competency Centres (DSCC) IN in Leiden. The event was also a knowledge exchange oriented workshop for the IN community to start…
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The GO FAIR International Support and Coordination Office (GFISCO) welcomes Dr Laurent Crouzet from the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation as new Strategic Director of the GO FAIR initiative. Laurent is replacing Prof Patrick Garda, who served as director of the French GO FAIR office since its…
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On 25 November 2019 the GO FAIR office hosted a workshop on “FAIR training and skills” at the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics. 28 professionals, including data stewards, research data managers and trainers from Germany, the Netherlands, UK, Switzerland and Greece came together to exchange experience, concepts and…
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GO BUILD Workshop on “Semantic Interoperability of Metadata for Cross-Domain Research of the Future” – How do we make vocabularies and other semantic resources FAIR? The latest workshop offered by the GO FAIR International Support and Coordination Office (GFISCO) brought together representatives of the implementation networks (INs) as well as…
Read moreGO 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…
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Check out the most recent addition to GO FAIR’s implementation networks: Data Stewardship Competence Centers (DSCC) Universities and other research performing institutions (RPI) across Europe, and globally, face the challenge of establishing professional, institution-wide research data stewardship and building its related infrastructure. Research ‘Data Stewardship Competence Centers’ (DSCC) collaborate with…
Read moreAnja Busch will attend the EOSC Symposium 2019, "where the EOSC makers & shakers meet". Detailed information about this event → https://www.eoscsecretariat.eu/eosc-symposium
Read moreThe 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…
Read moreBarend 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…
Read moreThe 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…
Read moreYou 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…
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On 23-25 October 2019 the RDA 14th Plenary took place in Helsinki, Finland. This year’s theme was “Data Makes the Difference”. This plenary was accompanied by several co-located events, such as the CODATA-Helsinki Workshop on FAIR RDM in Institutions 2019 or the workshop “Building a Matrix about the Technologies Used…
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CODATA, the Committee on Data of the International Science Council (ISC), wrote The Beijing Declaration on Research Data after discussions regarding current data policy issues during the 2019 edition of their yearly conference, held in China in September of this year. The declaration mentions the FAIR Principles and global Open…
Read moreThe 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…
Read moreThe 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…
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Erik Schultes, Luiz Bonino, Catharina Wasner and Xavier Engels participated in multiple sessions of the 14th Plenary RDA conference held in Helsinki. Highlights include: On October 22, the RDA co-located event organised by GEDE covered emerging solutions for both the “top” and the “waist” of the “hourglass” approach to data…
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GO FAIR welcomes a new Implementation Network: Ambassadors IN The Ambassadors Implementation Network aims to strengthen the involvement of researchers on FAIR in new countries and new sectors, including PhD students, masters students, bachelor students, diploma students and data stewards, as well as inclusion of seasoned researchers interested in exploring…
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Course Background The Eurodoc Open Science Ambassador Training is a course designed by Gareth O’Neill and Ivo Grigorov to train researchers in key practices in Open Science. Course Description The Open Science movement aims to open up the entire research cycle so that research designs, methods, data, and results are publicly available in a…
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On October 1st and 2nd, 2019, the kick-off meeting of the GO FAIR implementation network "Cross-Domain Interoperability of Heterogeneous Research Data (GO Inter)" with 20 participants from 13 organizations took place at GESIS in Cologne. The network aims at bringing together experts from the Semantic Web community, data providers and…
Read moreCatharina 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…
Read moreYou 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…
Read moreErik Schultes will give a talk at the Beilstein Open Science Symposium 2019.
Read moreOn 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
Read moreAt 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
Read morePartners 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).
Read moreThe 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…
Read moreYou 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…
Read moreAt 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".
Read moreGO 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"…
Read moreAt 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)
Read moreAt 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…
Read moreAt 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…
Read moreRepresentatives 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…
Read moreYou 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…
Read moreYou 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…
Read moreYou 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…
Read moreYou 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…
Read moreFidan 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).
Read moreAt 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/
Read moreYou 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…
Read moreWithin 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,…
Read moreYou 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…
Read moreOn 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…
Read moreErik 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.
Read moreYou 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…
Read moreErik Schultes will present "FAIR and GO FAIR" at the NeIC 2019 – Nordic Infrastructure for Open Science.
Read moreThe 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/
Read moreLuiz Bonino will give a keynote presentation at the CDISC Europe Interchange Conference. More information: https://www.cdisc.org/2019-cdisc-europe-interchange
Read moreErik 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.
Read more"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…
Read moreErik 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.
Read moreInes Drefs will present the GO FAIR Initiative at the first annual INEXDA Workshop on April 9, 2019.
Read moreInes 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
Read moreSilvia 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/
Read moreErik 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/
Read moreInes 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…
Read moreGO 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 moreRead 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…
Read moreThe 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…
Read moreOn 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,…
Read moreOn 14 January 2019, the GO FAIR International Support and Coordination Office hosted the GO TRAIN Pillar meeting.
Read moreRepresentatives 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…
Read moreMaking 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…
Read moreThis 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.
Read moreBarend 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…
Read moreErik 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…
Read moreOrganizers: 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)
Read moreInes 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…
Read moreThis 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…
Read moreMonika Linne will give a presentation on "How to go FAIR?" at the DINI-Jahrestagung 2018.
Read moreMinisterial 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.
Read moreKlaus 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.
Read moreKlaus 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).
Read moreThe 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…
Read moreInes 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.
Read moreKlaus 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…
Read moreMonika Linne and Erik Schultes will present the GO FAIR initiative at the Beilstein Open Science Symposium.
Read moreJoin 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…
Read moreJoin 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…
Read moreBarend 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.
Read moreMonika Linne will present the GO FAIR initiative at the open access conference Open-Access-Tage 2018 in Graz, Austria.
Read moreThemenschwerpunkte: Vorstellung von GO FAIR & Beteilungsmöglichkeiten an der Initiative, Arbeitsgruppen zu den drei Handlungsfeldern GO BUILD, GO TRAIN, GO CHANGE Link: Agenda Link: Ergebniszusammenfassung
Read moreFAIR 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…
Read moreKlaus Tochtermann: GO FAIR – Eine Initiative zum fairen Umgang mit Forschungsdaten
Read moreWorkshop: “Anreize und Hürden beim Data Sharing” Monika Linne: Presentation of the GO FAIR initiative
Read moreOn 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.
Read moreMuch 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…
Read moreEdit Herczog (moderator), Barend Mons, Patti Brennan, Maryann Martone, Jianhui LI, Klaus Tochtermann
Read moreOn 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…
Read moreOn 28 september 2017 several representatives of the German and Dutch government met in Bonn to discuss the governance of the GO FAIR initiative.
Read moreOn 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.
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