FAIR on Demand

This short online course caters for learners working with Life Science data and provides the necessary know-how to make data FAIR. The course provides concise, didactic FAIR background and signposting to useful resources and literature. Learners will be able to familiarise themselves with basic content and follow links to additional reading and training resources, if they wish to pursue a concept in more depth. The aim here is to give enough overview required for the second part of this course where real data examples are used to demonstrate FAIR in practice and engage in active learning.

This work is funded by a UKRI Innovation Scholars award (MR/C038966/1)

You will learn

  • The FAIR principles and related terms including FAIRification and FAIRness of data.
  • The history of FAIR including publications and active FAIR projects in the Life Sciences.
  • The differences between FAIR and Open data.
  • Why FAIR is important, giving examples where by not using FAIR, data has been made unusable by others.
  • How to make data FAIR through worked examples.

Prerequisites

This is a basic course. There is no prior knowledge necessary.

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Schedule

Setup Download files required for the lesson
00:00 1. FAIR guiding principles What is FAIR?
Why is FAIR important?
Pillars of FAIR
00:50 2. Registration What is a data repository?
What are types of data repositories?
Why should you upload your data to a data repository?
How to choose the right database for your dataset?
01:40 3. Access What is protocol and authentication?
What are the types of transfer protocols?
What is data usage licence?
What is sensitive data?
02:30 4. Persistent identifiers What is a persistant identifiers?
What is the structure of identifiers?
Why it is important for your dataset to have an identifiers?
03:20 5. Metadata What is FAIR? What is the origin of the FAIR movement?
Why is FAIR important?
What is the difference between FAIRness and FAIRification of data?
04:10 Finish

The actual schedule may vary slightly depending on the topics and exercises chosen by the instructor.