[CODATA-international] WorldFAIR: Global cooperation on FAIR data policy and practice – workshops introduce wide range of research domains to FAIR Implementation Profiles

[Asha CODATA]

The WorldFAIR project held a series of successful workshops between July
and October 2022 to introduce and complete FAIR Implementation Profiles
(FIPs) with eleven case study work packages.  This process culminated in a
plenary meeting of the WorldFAIR case studies, “FIPs in WorldFAIR: What
have we learnt?” which took place as part of the FAIR Convergence Symposium
in Leiden on 25 October 2022.

The WorldFAIR project is a major global collaboration between partners from
thirteen countries across Africa, Australasia, Europe, and North
and South America.  WorldFAIR advances implementation of the FAIR data
principles, in particular those for Interoperability, by developing a
cross-domain interoperability framework and recommendations for FAIR
assessment in a set of eleven disciplines or cross-disciplinary research
areas.

The WorldFAIR case studies have been carefully chosen to provide maximum
impact. The objective of each case study is to develop an interoperability
framework for their discipline or interdisciplinary research area. They are
clustered in connected groups in order to maximise scope while retaining a
critical mass of activity and allowing learning and cross-fertilisation of
ideas. Collected from CODATA and RDA activities and partnerships, the case
studies include leading organisations in a range of research areas,
supporting the creation of outputs with global impact.

The FIPs approach consists of a set of questions about practice in relation
to each of the FAIR principles.  It is supported by an online tool,
the FIPs Wizard. One of the potential benefits of this approach is the
creation, as ‘nanopublications’ of a set of FIPs and FAIR Enabling
Resources, coded in RDF, which can be read by machines, visualised, and
analysed. With use, the creation of more FIPs and FERs will furnish a
resource which can potentially give great insights into FAIR practices.

At our plenary workshop during the FAIR Convergence Symposium, six of the
case studies presented and reflected on the process of constructing their
FIP, specifically what they learned from the process; whether using FIPs
helped describe practices around FAIR; whether the FIP helped identify any
gaps or areas which would benefit from further attention; ways in which the
FIPs methodology and the tools around it can be improved; and the
identification of next steps.  Arofan Gregory (CODATA) then reflected on
the implications of these observations for our work on the
Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework, a major output of WorldFAIR.

We are grateful to Leah McEwan, Ian Bruno and Stuart Chalk
(Chemistry); Iseult Lynch and Thomas Exner (Nanomaterials); Steve McEachern
and Hilde Orten (Social Surveys); Maarten Trekels and Debora Drucker
(Agricultural Biodiversity); Bapon Fakhruddin and Jill Bolland (Disaster
Risk Reduction) and Beth Knazook (Cultural Heritage) for their insights.

WorldFAIR forms the core of CODATA’s contribution to the International
Science Council (ISC) Action Plan Project 2.1, Making Data Work For
Cross-Domain Grand Challenges.  WorldFAIR runs for 24 months from 1 June
2022 and is funded by the European Commission through its Horizon
Europe Framework Programme, project call HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01-01,
grant agreement 101058393. Project website: https://worldfair-project.eu.

Thanks,
Asha
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