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Editorial

Dear GO FAIR community,

Spring is just around the corner, and while we are looking forward to warmer and longer days, we are happy to look back at the last two winter months that we used to sum up activities internally, and discuss the best way to move forward to further advance FAIRification in research data management together with you.

We hope to provide you soon with an update on the series of ‘wheel meetings’ we are planning to roll out in cooperation with CODATA. The output of these meetings shall feed into the second edition of the FAIR Convergence Symposium that will take place on 24-26 October 2022 in Leiden.

Both the 2nd FAIR Convergence Symposium and the 1st conference of the FAIR Digital Objects Forum will be part of the ‘Hotzone’ week in the context of Leiden 2022: European City of Science. That week will be dedicated to FAIR and, specifically, to FAIR Digital Objects as the core machine-actionable units of information necessary to build an Internet and Web of FAIR data and services. If you haven’t done so yet, save the dates: 24-28 October 2022! 

Last but not least we would like to inform you that we are reducing the frequency of our GO FAIR Newsletter given the new more lightweight nature of GO FAIR. We will still inform you on a regular basis what the GO FAIR community has been up to, but instead of six times per year, we are rather looking at once every three to four months. If you would like to recommend our newsletter to your friends and colleagues, they can easily subscribe here.

All the best,
Laurent Crouzet, Barend Mons & Klaus Tochtermann
Strategic Directors, GO FAIR Initiative


Did you know… GO Read

In this section you will learn about Implementation Networks that have recently acquired “active” status, recent IN activities and opportunities. This way, we ensure that you always stay on top of things happening in the GO FAIR family.

Outputs

Opportunities

Interesting reads by our INs and national offices

National offices news

GO Meet

This section gives you an overview of conferences and workshops where you can meet up (virtually) with fellow GO FAIR members if you happen to attend the same event or are in the same town. In order for this category to work we do need your help! Please drop us a line at go-fair@zbw.eu and tell us where you can be met in the future.

External events

Meet INs

Meet GFISCO

  • 23 March 2022 (virtual): Say hi to colleagues from the GO FAIR US office at the next FAIR Points event.
  • 25-29 July 2022 (virtual): Meet colleagues from the GO FAIR US office at the FSCI2022 Online. This year’s theme is “Collaboration for Action: Sharing Knowledge Across Boundaries”. 

INternal events

Meet INs

Meet GFISCO

People of GO FAIR

In this section we would like to introduce you to members of our GO FAIR family. In each newsletter we will provide you with a short profile of two GO FAIR members.

IN representatives

MMeet the coordinators of the EcoSoc IN: Daniel Buck, Ute Hoffstätter and Monika Linne

Daniel Buck is a historian and social scientist. He is head of the Research Data Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (FDZ-DZHW), which he contributed to establishing. He is particularly involved in the areas of access to sensitive research data, legal aspects of data archiving and data access. Daniel is interested in considering quantitative and qualitative data types and methods in archiving and secondary use to support the RDCs broader interdisciplinary field of research. He is a member of the Committee for Data Access (FDI Committee), which is a part of the German Data Forum (RatSWD). He is involved in the KonsortSWD project (consortium within the National Research Data Infrastructure Germany) and the coordination of the GO FAIR Implementation Network EcoSoc.

Ute Hoffstätter is a sociologist (M.A.) at the Research Data Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (FDZ-DZHW). She contributed to the establishment of the Research Data Center and is particularly involved in the areas of access to sensitive research data and metadata. Ute is interested in fostering the FAIR principles in the EcoSoc disciplines, as well as providing support for the CoreTrustSeal certification of research data centers. She is involved in the KonsortSWD project (consortium within the National Research Data Infrastructure Germany) and the coordination of the GO FAIR Implementation Network EcoSoc.

Monika Linne is a sociologist (M.A.) at GESIS Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, where she supports the NFDI consortium KonsortSWD. Here she sets up the RDM Competence Base RDMCompas, which is a training and learning platform for employees of the research data centers accredited by the German Data Forum (RatSWD). Before that, she worked as a research assistant at the Competence Center for Research Data Management (C³RDM) at the University of Cologne. She started engaging for the establishment of the FAIR Principles as a research assistant in the International Support and Coordination Office of the GO FAIR Initiative. In addition to the EcoSoc IN, she coordinates the GO FAIR Implementation Network GO Unite!, which is a national chapter of the Data Stewardship Competence Center (DSCC IN).


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