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The FDO Forum is organising its 1st International Conference of FAIR Digital Objects (FDO2022). This event will bring together technical, scientific, industry, and science-policy stakeholders with the aim to boost the development and implementation of FDOs worldwide and transform the Internet into more than just a data space: into a…

From 24-28 October, in the context of Leiden 2022: European City of Science, there will be a week dedicated to FAIR implementation 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. The week…

From 24-28 October, in the context of Leiden 2022: European City of Science, there will be a ‘Hotzone’week 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. The week features…

FAIR Data Austria is organizing another virtual webinar series on "Research Data Management in Austria" where experts from research and research infrastructures talk about different topics in the realm of Open Science and research data management. Anyone is invited to join these webinars. 09 March 2022, 1:00-3:00 pm CET: FAIR…

Join the 1st Workshop on Ontologies for FAIR and FAIR Ontologies (Onto4FAIR) on 13 September 2022 in Vienna, Austria! A key aspect in making data FAIR is the ability of machines to automatically find, access, interoperate, and reuse data with none or minimal human intervention. For that, the ability of…

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…

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…

Join the AdvancedNano GO FAIR Implementation Network representatives Martine Bakker and Veronica Dumit at the Nano-week and NanoCommons Final Conference on 20-24 June 2022 in Limassol, Cyprus, who will present on the current state and activities of the IN on Tuesday, 21 June in the afternoon. The theme of the…

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.…

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…

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.…

Join this virtual e-IRG Workshop on 30-31 May 2022, which will be conducted as a series of three webinars and is organized this year in the framework of the French EU Presidency! Each of the webinars will address key challenges for the further development of e-Infrastructures in the Europe Research…

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,…

Eine Kernaufgabe von Kompetenzstellen für Forschungsdatenmanagement (FDM), Datenzentren und FDM-Helpdesks ist die Beratung und Unterstützung von Forschenden bei Fragen zum Umgang mit ihren Forschungsdaten. Entsprechend der Heterogenität der Wissenschafts- und Forschungslandschaft können auch diese FDM-Anfragen und -Bedarfe eine hohe Diversität aufweisen. So müssen bspw. abhängig vom Kontext einer FDM-Anfrage unterschiedliche…

Eine Kernaufgabe von Kompetenzstellen für Forschungsdatenmanagement (FDM), Datenzentren und FDM-Helpdesks ist die Beratung und Unterstützung von Forschenden bei Fragen zum Umgang mit ihren Forschungsdaten. Entsprechend der Heterogenität der Wissenschafts- und Forschungslandschaft können auch diese FDM-Anfragen und -Bedarfe eine hohe Diversität aufweisen. Eine adäquate Bedienung von FDM-Anfragen und -Bedarfen erfordert in…

GO Unite! veranstaltet am Donnerstag, den 28. April 2022 von 9 bis 15 Uhr einen Frühjahresworkshop. GO Unite! hat sich als nationales Chapter des internationalen GO FAIR DSCC-Implementierungsnetzwerks innerhalb der deutschen FDM-Community etabliert. In den vergangenen Monaten arbeiteten die Arbeitsgruppen von GO Unite! vorrangig an drei Themen: Connecting the network:…

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.…

Join this hybrid event on "FAIR Ethical Patient Data Records Deployment in Health Facilities in Africa" either virtual or in Leiden on 20 April 2022 at 4-6pm CET! It will be moderated by Prof Dr Mirjam van Reisen, Professor for FAIR Data Science at LUMC and Christine Kirkpatrick from SDSC.…

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…

FAIR mechanisms have pioneered a new paradigm of making data discoverable, accessible, and reusable. At the same time, a new wave of privacy and data protection laws (including GDPR) around the world is regulating how personal data is shared responsibly. This talk explores the intersection between the two communities and…

Join Barbara Sanchéz and Tomasz Miksa from GO FAIR Austria for a workshop on "FAIR for sensitive data" on 23 March 2022, 10-12pm CET! The workshop will be held in English. Learn about technical and legal aspects of working with sensitive data, methods, and tools for privacy-preserving data mining/analysis and…

Join Yvan Le Bras, Olivier Norvez and Coline Royaux from the BiodiFAIRse IN at the Smörgåsbord 2022: Tapas Edition for a week of free galaxy training. Join this week of e-learning around scientific data analysis (notably ecology data)! Start by learning about the Galaxy platform on day 1 if you…

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…

The FDO Forum published its March 2022 Bulletin. Check it out, and learn about its recent activities, and how to get engaged:

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…

This workshop will take place in German. The limit is 35 participants. The kick-off meeting of the GO FAIR implementation network EcoSoc took place on 02 November 2021. As a result of this workshop, the desire for more exchange and networking between the research data centres became evident. In particular,…

To our German-speaking community: On 21 October 2021 representatives from research data management institutions in Germany gathered for the 2nd meeting of 2021 of the German Data Stewardship Competence Centers (DSCC) IN chapter GO Unite! to talk about future activities. New working groups were established. Annette Strauch-Davey from University of…

Join the first FAIRPoints event on 28 January 2022 at 5-6pm CEST co-organized by GO FAIR US, SDSC, AGU, and SciLifeLab Data Centre. This event series aims at bringing together people across the research ecosystem to discuss, highlight, and share pragmatic solutions to making FAIR a reality. Their main aims…

ENVRI-FAIR and GO FAIR are organising a three-part workshop on FAIR Implementation Profiles (FIPs), as part of the ENVRI Week 2022. In this workshop series, you will be provided an overview of the variety of options and technologies that are available to address each of the FAIR principles. Then, using…

Join the High Level Panel on Future Data Space on 19 January 2022 from 2pm to 6pm CET! This panel is organized by George Strawn and Peter Wittenburg from the FAIR Digital Object Forum. The panelists are: Paolo Budroni, TU Vienna, Austria Luciano Floridi, University of Oxford, UK Beth Plale,…

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…

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,…

On 22-24 November 2021 the first TRIPLE International Conference "Empowering Discovery in Open Social Sciences and Humanities" will take place virtually. The goal of the conference is to create space for discussing the impact, benefits and challenges of discovery services for the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in the European…

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…

Join Chris Erdmann from the GO FAIR US office who is co-coordinator of this workshop of the Community of Practice for Complex Data. In this workshop we share three use cases on possible approaches to a “reliquary” – a large collection of digital objects used to assist in citation and…

Join the GO FAIR US office on 28 October at 6pm CEST to learn how the US Geological Service (USGS) has utilized the GO FAIR Pillars in their roadmap for enabling FAIR Data. Speakers: Fran Lightsom, supervisor of the information science group at the USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine…

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…

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…

** Update: The workshop report is available now. Read it here. ** This workshop is organized by the German chapter of the Data Stewardship Competence Centers IN, and will be held in German. Please contact the GO Unite! IN coordinators Patrick Helling and Monika Linne for any questions. Am 21.…

Researchers, data stewards and research support personnel are invited to join the webinar on "Let's make our data FAIR!" hosted by FAIR Office Austria. Research objects should be FAIR: findable, accessible, interoperable and re-usable. But how can researchers ensure in their everyday research that their data comply with the FAIR…

In an increasingly complex and heterogeneous environment, significant effort is required to efficiently work with data and other digital objects. The Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) principles were elaborated to tackle these problems, describing a minimal set of requirements for data stewardship towards higher data reusability. The FAIR principles…

The FDO Forum is organizing its first Community Interaction Meeting on Thursday, 14 October 2021 from 14.00-18.00 CEST. In this meeting the results of the FDO Forum until now will be disseminated, and the community will be engaged in the discussions about all topics being addressed by the FDO Forum…

During the FAIR Festival 2021 on 21-23 June 2021 the DSCC IN organized the workshop “Sharing FAIR Data Stewardship knowledge across borders” (slide presentations). As a follow-up, DSCC IN national chapters’ representatives decided to keep up the momentum and organize a two-day meeting on 4-5 October 2021 at 2-4 PM…

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…

Update: If you missed the this webinar or would like to rewatch it, visit MyScienceWork's YouTube channel. *** Join Ronald Cornet, GO FAIR Executive Board Chair and member of the Rare Diseases IN, in the live webinar on FAIR Implementation Considerations by MyScienceWork. Ronald will focus on semantic interoperability, both…

The FAIR office Austria is organising a series of webinars on "Research Data Management in Austria". These events bring together researchers and research support staff to learn about various Research Data Management and Open Knowledge topics. Here is the full list of webinars: 22.9.2021 10:00-11:00 – Disclosure of Data to…

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…

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,…

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:…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

This workshop is organized by the German chapter of the Data Stewardship Competence Center IN, and will be held in German. Please contact the GO UNITE! IN coordinators Patrick Helling and Monika Linne for any questions. Was ist was? – Entwicklung eines formalen Beschreibungsmodells für Service- und Bedarfsstrukturen im Forschungsdatenmanagement…

Summery temperatures, chilled drinks and high-spirited people are just a few of the characteristics that come to mind when thinking about festivals in June. Let's take full advantage of the effervescent energy of summer, and virtually round up the community for three half days to celebrate the FAIR shift in…

Join the GO FAIR US team on June 16, 2021 for their webinar on FAIR Workflows (12 pm PST / 3 pm EST / 7 pm UTC)! Invited speakers are: Carole Goble and Frederik Coppens who will talk about steps towards FAIR principles for computational tools and workflows and how…

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

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”.…

The US GO FAIR office is hosting a FAIR Data Stewardship Interest Group Meeting on Friday, 30 April 2021 at 6-7pm CET (12-1pm EST, 9-10am PT). Fill out this form if you are interested in attending.  

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…

The US GO FAIR office organizes an interactive webinar where participants can share their FAIR-related WIPs (Work in Progress) or CHIPs (Challenges in Progress) and receive feedback from community members. This webinar is structured to map the landscape of current work and challenges within the FAIR community. More information incl.…

*** Update: Read the short report about the strategie meeting.*** Following the successful kick-off of GO UNI on 08 October 2020 the next virtual GO UNI meeting will take place on Thursday, 11 February 2021, 9am-2pm (CEST). The workshop will be held in German. At this strategic meeting, participants will…

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…

Join the webinar about FAIR & Research Software on Thursday, 14 January 2021 at 5pm CET (12-1pm Eastern Time, 9-10am Pacific Time, 4pm UTC), hosted by our US GO FAIR office. The invited speaker is Dr Anna-Lena Lamprecht from Utrecht University, who will be discussing how FAIR Principles can be…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

Update: The session recordings are ready for viewing. Visit our Media page to watch the session videos. *** Register here to attend the symposium: https://bit.ly/FAIRCONVERGE1 (using code FAIRCONVERGE1). *** The Symposium Programme is now available. Please note that this initial programme overview is subject to change. Full programme including details…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

*** Report: GO UNI successfully kicked-off in Germany *** Due to Covid-19 the founding meeting of the German Chapter of the Data Stewardship Competence Centers Implementation Network (DSCC IN) GO UNI unfortunately had to be canceled. We are happy to inform you, that it was possible to reschedule the meeting…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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  

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

ZonMw organises webinars on FAIR data management tailored to COVID-19 research, as well as registries, research networks, data portals (etc) that are developed within the COVID-19 (clinical) research community. The aim is to involve data experts, researchers and professionals in practice to make valuable data from COVID-19 research reusable. This…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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,…

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.…

*** 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

While we have made great strides when it comes to accessibility of scientific data, discoverability is seriously lacking. As a result, up to 85% of research data are not reused. Discoverability is therefore one of the key challenges for FAIR data, especially across disciplines. The GO FAIR Implementation Network on…

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).

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…

GO FAIR welcomes a new Implementation Network: IN-Africa Central to the Implementation Network is the African expression of the Internet of FAIR Data and Sercvices (IFDS). The network considers the opportunities of data science for economic potential, especially for Africa’s youth and the need for education and training in this…

The latest workshop offered by the GO FAIR International Support and Coordination Office brought together 28 representatives of research data management competence centres and research communities from Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Germany at the German National Library in Frankfurt on June 19, 2019. United in seeking to establish an…

GO BUILD – GO CHANGE – GO TRAIN – Ways for the German Community to Contribute to GO FAIR On Wednesday, 15th of May 2019, the third Germany GOes FAIR workshop took place in Germany. At the GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Cologne, representatives of various research…

Check out this new Implementation Network for Cross-Domain Interoperability of Heterogeneous Research Data: GO Inter Despite the existence of widely accepted standards for data representation and linking, research data are often described in heterogeneous and unstandardized ways. This results in domain-specific, disconnected “data silos” which makes discovery, linking and reuse of…

On 12 February 2019 the GO FAIR Personal Health Train (PHT) Implementation Network (IN) German Chapter workshop took place in Berlin. The PHT IN German Chapter workshop report is now available. Interested in more information about the PHT IN? Then check out the newly created webpage for the Personal Health…

Congratulations to Elena Giglia, Head of the Open Access Office at the University of Turin and Suzanne Dumouchel, Co-Coordinator of OPERAS Partnerhips and Public Affairs Officer! The two coordinators of the GO FAIR Implementation Network “CO-OPERAS” presented their poster “CO-OPERAS Implementation Network: FAIR Data in the SSH” at this year’s…

GO FAIR welcomes the GlobAl Integrated EArth Data Implementation Network (GAIA Data IN). This Implementation Network will build on, and promote, extensive pre-existing coordination work, services, tools, and recommendations, whilst seeking to improve transdisciplinary and cross-domain data interoperability. A key objective will be to facilitate access to both space and…

Check out our latest Implementation Network: Food Systems IN. The Food System IN's goal is to advance a global data ecosystem for agriculture and food by implementing FAIR data and services. Agri-food systems are facing unprecedented socio-economic, and environmental challenges to feed 2 billion more people by 2050. In order to…

GO FAIR welcomes the Personal Health Train Implementation Network. Major public and private stakeholders in health, healthcare and biomedical research are developing the ‘Personal Health Train’ (PHT). This is a distributed infrastructure that enables the use and reuse of health data for the benefit of individuals and society. The PHT…

GO FAIR welcomes a new Implementation Network: NOMAD. NOMAD is part of the Dutch-German consortium FAIR Data Infrastructure (FAIR-DI), pillar A (www.fairdi.eu). The Novel Materials Discovery (NOMAD) Laboratory maintains the largest worldwide repository for input and output files of all important computational materials science computer programs. Based on its open-access data,…

The Metabolomics Implementation Network has been one of the early GO FAIR movers. The GO FAIR Metabolomics Implementation Network was established in March 2017 in Leiden during a meeting attended by more than 30 stakeholders from all over Europe (academia, UMCs, research institutes including EMBL-EBI, small and medium companies, software companies,…

More than 90 Implementation Network representatives gathered in the Netherlands to find out about ways to sync their FAIR endeavours. The GO FAIR International Support and Coordination Office hosted the first annual meeting of GO FAIR Implementation Networks (INs) on January 15-16, 2019 in Leiden, The Netherlands. This meeting aimed…

Check out the recent addition to the GO FAIR Implementation Networks: Chemistry IN (ChIN). The Chemistry community needs to create a FAIR culture which is supported by standards and infrastructure development promoting machine readability of chemical data and other digital resources. The goals of this Implementation Network are to enhance the open,…

GO FAIR welcomes CO-OPERAS, a new Implementation Network. CO-OPERAS – open access in the European research area through scholarly communication – IN aims to build a bridge between SSH data and the EOSC, widening the concept of “research data” to include all of the types of digital research output linked…

GO FAIR welcomes a new Implementation Network: BiodiFAIRse The global aims of the biodiversity field are to understand the underlying mechanisms of nature, document and capture the state and dynamics of ecosystems, and build predictive models for the future. This understanding is based on access to and use of data,…

Check out the most recent addition to GO FAIR's implementation networks: Discovery IN. Research data are among the fastest growing openly accessible scientific outputs on the web. While we have made great strides when it comes to accessibility of scientific data, discoverability is seriously lacking. Many frontends are designed from…

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.  

GO FAIR welcomes the Rare Diseases Implementation Network. The key driver for this Implementation Network is the need to speed up substantially the progress towards earlier diagnosis and new treatments of rare diseases. This is much more likely when data that are collected are Findable, Accessible (under well-defined conditions), Interoperable,…

GO FAIR has a new implementation network, the Economic and Social Sciences goINg FAIR Implementation Network (short: EcoSoc IN). For more information, check out their IN page on our website.

The GeRDI Project has formed an Implementation Network (IN) under the GO FAIR initative and offers to exchange experiences in interdisciplinary metadata services, based on community requirements, plus designing and implementing a resulting system architecture. Projects and initiatives are invited to join the IN, especially those also possessing experiences regarding…

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

GO FAIR welcomes C2CAMP, a new Implementation Network existing of a group of international experts from relevant research institutions and infrastructure initiatives committed to build interoperable components that are based on specifications from RDA working groups and other comparable initiatives such as OAI, W3C, ISO, and IETF and to integrate…

On April 10th 2018 a group directly involved in current Personal Health Train projects got together at the GO FAIR International Support and Coordination Office, in Leiden, to discuss the definition of the main architectural elements of the system, alignments among the different projects and forms of closer collaborations. Besides…

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.

On 14 March 2018 the first French GO FAIR meeting for future INs took place. Read the report here.

On Jan 24, 2018, a group of founding stakeholders met in the GO FAIR International Support and Coordination Office (GFISCO) to brainstorm about the rationale for, and the construction of a GO FAIR Implementation Network (IN) focusing on assisting other people to render their data and associated services FAIR. The…

On January 25, roughly 30 participants came together under the auspices of the GO FAIR International Support of Coordination Office (GFISCO). Their goal was to learn more about the status of GO FAIR as an international activity, about the GFISCO and its operations, and about the process of launching or…

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. This will help scientists to exchange research data…

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.