FAIR guiding principles

Overview

Teaching: 40 min
Exercises: 10 min

Questions

• What is FAIR?

• Why is FAIR important?

• Pillars of FAIR

Objectives

• Identify the importance of FAIR principles for the open science

• Explain The difference between FAIR and open data

• Contextualise the main principles of FAIR in the light of the main pillars (Identifiers, access, metadata, and registration)

Key Points

• FAIR stands for Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable

• What is meant by FAIRness and FAIRification of data?

• Metadata, identifiers , registration, access are key components in the process of FAIRification

• The FAIR Principles differ from Open data because they permit the owner of the data to control access, although as part of this they are required to define methods and instances where data could be accessed