<div dir="ltr"><h2 id="gmail-major-steps-forward-taken-in-the-building-of-a-terminology-for-the-skills-required-to-make-and-keep-data-fair" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;font-weight:normal;color:rgb(21,153,87);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Major steps forward taken in the building of a terminology for the skills required to make and keep data FAIR.<br><i>DANS headquarters, The Hague, October 16-18, 2019.</i></h2><h3 id="gmail-what-did-we-do" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:2rem;margin-bottom:1rem;font-weight:normal;color:rgb(21,153,87);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px">What did we do?</strong></h3><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:1em;color:rgb(96,108,113);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:17.6px">On 16-18 October 2019, representatives of the research data community met at the DANS headquarters in The Hague to continue to build a terminology to describe FAIR stewardship skills (the skills necessary to make data FAIR and to keep them FAIR): the tag <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23terms4FAIRskills&src=tyah" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(30,107,184);text-decoration-line:none;margin-top:0px"><span class="gmail-underline" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px">#terms4FAIRskills</span></a> was used on Twitter during the event.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:1em;color:rgb(96,108,113);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:17.6px">The meeting was kindly supported by FAIRsFAIR. This meeting was a follow up to the <a href="https://terms4fairskills.github.io/Announcement.html" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(30,107,184);text-decoration-line:none;margin-top:0px"><span class="gmail-underline" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px">first terms4FAIRskills meeting</span></a> held at the CODATA headquarters in Paris in 19-20 May 2019.</p><h3 id="gmail-why-is-this-important" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:2rem;margin-bottom:1rem;font-weight:normal;color:rgb(21,153,87);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px">Why is this important?</strong></h3><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:1em;color:rgb(96,108,113);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:17.6px">This effort is building a formalised terminology that describes the competencies, skills and knowledge associated with activities involved in making data FAIR and keeping it FAIR. We have focussed initially on two important use cases, namely:</p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;color:rgb(96,108,113);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:17.6px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:1em;margin-top:0px">determining what FAIR-related skills are covered by a set of training materials;</p></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:1em;margin-top:0px">searching for relevant FAIR-related courses and learning paths.</p></li></ul><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:1em;color:rgb(96,108,113);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:17.6px">These will be important in enabling the training of FAIR-related skills for researchers, data stewards and data managers.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:1em;color:rgb(96,108,113);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:17.6px">Other possible use cases such as developing FAIR-related job descriptions and domain-related searches in topics such as the Life or Social Sciences could also be developed. At the end of the Paris workshop we had a spreadsheet developed with 245 rows of terms based on the FAIR4S table.</p><h3 id="gmail-what-did-we-achieve-since-paris" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:2rem;margin-bottom:1rem;font-weight:normal;color:rgb(21,153,87);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px">What did we achieve since Paris?</strong></h3><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:1em;color:rgb(96,108,113);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:17.6px">Definitions and relationships for each term were developed by our annotation teams. The FAIRsharing team then clarified and added further information to the spreadsheet to enable conversion into an OWL file, which is one of the standard formats for expressing knowledge engineering data sets such as this. Details of this process can be found at <a href="https://github.com/terms4fairskills/FAIRterminology">https://github.com/terms4fairskills/FAIRterminology</a></p><h3 id="gmail-what-did-we-achieve-in-the-hague" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:2rem;margin-bottom:1rem;font-weight:normal;color:rgb(21,153,87);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px">What did we achieve in The Hague?</strong></h3><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:1em;color:rgb(96,108,113);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:17.6px">At the meeting in DANS, the following was achieved:</p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;color:rgb(96,108,113);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:17.6px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:1em;margin-top:0px">the terminology was remodelled to more precisely distinguish activities from pedagogical concepts such as Knowledge, Skills and Aptitudes.</p></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:1em;margin-top:0px">Talks were presented by the collaborations SSHOC, ELIXIR and FAIRsFAIR, which provided insights into how the terminology could be used and extended for their purposes.</p></li></ul><h3 id="gmail-what-next" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:2rem;margin-bottom:1rem;font-weight:normal;color:rgb(21,153,87);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px">What next?</strong></h3><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:1em;color:rgb(96,108,113);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:17.6px">We will continue to atomise and refine each class and build relationships collaboratively using the WebProtege web tool. The terminology will soon be tested against the initial use cases. We plan to make the terminology available in the near future for initial inspection and comment</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:1em;color:rgb(96,108,113);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:17.6px">Thanks,</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:1em;color:rgb(96,108,113);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:17.6px">Asha</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:1em;color:rgb(96,108,113);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:17.6px">------------------------</p><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="http://www.codata.org/events/science-and-policy-workshops/codata-and-codata-china-high-level-international-meeting-on-open-research-data-policy-and-practice" target="_blank"><b>Beijing Declaration on Research Data</b></a> -released 8 November 2019 on UNESCO World Science Day</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="http://www.codata.org/about-codata/message-from-president-barend-mons" target="_blank"><b>Message from CODATA President, Barend Mons</b></a></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://vizafrica.codata.org/2019-Botswana/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration-line:none">VizAfrica Botswana, 18-19 Nov</a> - <a href="https://vizafrica.codata.org/conference/2019-Botswana/register/" target="_blank">REGISTER NOW</a></b><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="http://codata.org/blog/2019/11/01/october-2019-publications-in-the-data-science-journal/" target="_blank"><b>October 2019 Publications</b></a><b> in the <a href="https://datascience.codata.org/" target="_blank">CODATA Data Science Journal</a> </b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Stay in touch with CODATA:</b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Stay up to date with CODATA activities: <a href="http://lists.codata.org/mailman/listinfo/codata-international_lists.codata.org" target="_blank"><b>join the CODATA International News list</b></a></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Looking for training and career opportunities in data science and data stewardship?  <b><a href="http://lists.codata.org/mailman/listinfo/data_science_training_lists.codata.org" target="_blank">Sign up to the CODATA early career community-run data science training and careers list</a></b></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">___________________________<br></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">Asha Law | Program Assistant, CODAT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