FAIR on Demand: Glossary

Key Points

FAIR guiding principles

  • 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
Registration

  • {“This episode covers the following FAIR principles”=>nil}

  • (Meta)data are registered or indexed in a searchable resource (F4)

  • (Meta)data are released with a clear and accessible data usage licence (R1.1)
Access

  • {“This episode covers the following FAIR principles”=>nil}

  • (A1) (meta)data are retrievable by their identifier using a standardised communications protocol

  • (R1.1) meta(data) are released with a clear and accessible data usage licence
Persistent identifiers

  • (Meta)data use a formal, accessible, shared, and broadly applicable language for knowledge representation (I1)

  • (Meta)data include qualified references to other (meta)data (A3)

  • Metadata are accessible, even when the data are no longer available (A2)
Metadata

  • (Meta)data use a formal, accessible, shared, and broadly applicable language for knowledge representation (I1)

  • (Meta)data include qualified references to other (meta)data (A3)

  • Metadata are accessible, even when the data are no longer available (A2)

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