How FAIRsharing can help provide content for the creation of machine-actionable Data Management Plans. Part of the DCC's "Machine Actionable DMP Workshop" co-located at the RDA Plenary, March 2023 (https://www.dcc.ac.uk/events)/RDAcolocated_machine_actionable_DMPs

1. www.rd-alliance.org/group/fairsharing-registry-connecting-data-policies-standards-databases.html
Machine Actionable DMP Workshop, Co-located with RDA Plenary, Gothenburg, March 20, 2023
@FAIRsharing_org
contact@fairsharing.org @fairsharing@fediscience.org
Allyson Lister, FAIRsharing
University of Oxford, UK
0000-0002-7702-4495
FAIRsharing Content & Community Lead;
RDA FAIRsharing WG co-chair
Marek Suchánek, DSW
marek.suchanek@ds-wizard.org
0000-0001-7525-9218
Tomasz Miksa, TU Wien
tomasz.miksa@tuwien.ac.at
0000-0002-4929-7875
FAIRsharing as a content provider for maDMP

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An informative and educational resource, and a service
FAIRsharing provides curated descriptions and relationship graphs of
standards, databases and policies
COMMUNITY STANDARDS
POLICIES
by funders, journals
and other organizations
DATABASES
including repositories
and knowledgebases
Identifiers
Terminologies Guidelines
Formats

3. CC BY 4.0 International
Promote the value and use of standards, databases and policies in all disciplines,
by engaging stakeholders across all sectors, through all stages of the research life cycle
Our mission and how we deliver it
Guide consumers to discover, select and use these resources with confidence
Help producers to make their resources more visible, more widely adopted and cited
Researchers Developers and curators Journal publishers
Societies and Alliances
Librarians and Trainers
Funders

4. CC BY 4.0 International
FAIRsharing in numbers: content, contributions, coverage
as of March 2023
collections
databases
standards
policies
all records
2011-2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Growth since launch
Types and subtypes Disciplines

5. CC BY 4.0 International
Users, adopters and collaborators include:
https://fairsharing.org/communities
An endorsed output of the
FAIRsharing WG (since 2015):
A WG (since 2015) in:
A recommended resource in EOSC reports
Users from all stakeholder groups
Researchers Developers and curators Journal publishers
Societies and Alliances
Librarians and Trainers Funders
Working with all stakeholders, all disciplines

6. CC BY 4.0 International
Data Policy Checklist & Structured
Description
doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6281105
Database attributes/criteria
FAIRsharing WG: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4683794
Data Repository Attribute WG
Journal Data Policy Features
Data policy standardisation and implementation IG:
doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2020-005
Dryad in FAIRsharing, DOI: 10.25504/FAIRsharing.wkggtx
University of Edinburgh Data Policy in FAIRsharing, DOI:
10.25504/FAIRsharing.c81b3c

7. CC BY 4.0 International
A growing number of tools and services access
FAIRsharing API, and use it for look-up, selection and
content retrieval for standards and repositories in:
● creation of data management plans
● enrichment of guidance and training material
● assessment of FAIRness
Powering 3rd party tools
doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7463421

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API
https://api.fairsharing.org
FAIRsharing API for programmatic access
Documentation: https://fairsharing.org/API_doc
Third-party tools and other clients
Authentication via
REST/JSON:
read and write
User interface
https://fairsharing.org
REST/JSON:
read and write
OAI-PMH:
read
Client requests JSON from fairsharing.org
(website), API responds instead.

9. CC BY 4.0 International
FAIRsharing provides curated metadata and stable references
● Tools can search and pull
our content, including
over 40 metadata
descriptors
○ Funders, developers and
other related organisations
○ Licence information
○ Database conditions
● This content can be
represented using our
DOIs within maDMPs
● Any required metadata
can also be retrieved
JSON example: Tomasz Miksa

10. CC BY 4.0 International
Example Repository: GBIF
FAIRsharing DOI: 10.25504/FAIRsharing.zv11j3

11. CC BY 4.0 International
Example Format: EML
FAIRsharing DOI: 10.25504/FAIRsharing.r3vtvx

12. Example (Integration) Question
Credit: Marek Suchánek, DSW

13. Example (Integration) Question
Search in external service
Credit: Marek Suchánek, DSW

14. Example (Integration) Question
Get reply with URI
Search in external service
Credit: Marek Suchánek, DSW

15. Example (Integration) Question
Search in external service
Get reply with URI
Open link with details
Credit: Marek Suchánek, DSW

16. CC BY 4.0 International
FAIRsharing is a knowledge graph of
descriptions of standards, databases
and policies. Tools can search and
retrieve that information via our API,
incorporating metadata or referencing it
via stable DOIs.
JSON example: Tomasz Miksa
https://github.com/RDA-DMP-Common/RDA-DMP-Common-Standard/blob/master/examples/JSON/ex10-fairsharing.json

17. CC BY 4.0 International
FAIRsharing Community Champion Programme
Domain experts, from RDA, EOSC clusters and worldwide, who
● Help curate content, standards, repositories and policies relevant to their EOSC
cluster, RDA group, research domain, or area of focus
● Contribute to educational material for the users
● Gain expertise, networking and attribution for their work, via ORCID
Funded by the:
Ambassadorship Programme
blog.fairsharing.org/?p=261
and
blog.fairsharing.org/?p=336
fairsharing.org/community_curation

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FAIRsharing Community Champion Programme
fairsharing.org/community_champions/our_champions

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Infographics and factsheets by our Champions
fairsharing.org/educational

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Stakeholder Advisors
● Amye Kenall, Research Square
● Adam Leary, Oxford University Press
● Catriona MacCallum, Hindawi
● Dagmar Meyer, ERC, Executive Agency
● Dominic Fripp, JISC
● Emma Ganley, Protocols.io
● Geraldine Clement-Stoneham, MRC
● Helena Cousijn, DataCite
● Lauren Cadwallader, PLoS
● Imma Subirats, FAO of the United Nations
● Kiera McNiece, Cambridge University Press
● Luiz Olavo Bonino, GO-FAIR
● Lorenzo Feri, Elsevier
● Mark Leggott, Digital Research Alliance of Canada
● Marta Teperek, TUDelft
● Michael Ball, Medical Research Council
● Mike Huerta, NIH National Library of Medicine
● Rebecca Grant, F1000
● Nick Everitt and Matthew Cannon, Taylor and Francis
● Sarah Callaghan, Strategy & Policy Unit, University of Oxford
● Sarah Stewart, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
● Scott Edmunds, GigaScience, Oxford University Press
● Simon Hodson, CODATA
● Sowmya Swaminathan, Springer Nature
● Theo Bloom, British Medical Journal
● Thomas Lemberger, EMBO Press
● Wei-Mun Chan, eLife
Executive Advisors
● David Carr, Independent expert
● Peter McQuilton, (FAIRsharing Founding Member), GSK
● Robert Hanisch, NIST
● Varsha Khodiyar, Independent Expert
RDA FAIRsharing WG Chairs
● Graham Smith, Springer Nature
● Holly Murray, Health Data Research UK
● Peter McQuilton, GSK
● Rebecca Grant, F1000
● Simon Hodson, CODATA
● Allyson Lister, University of Oxford
● Susanna-Assunta Sansone, University of Oxford
Community Champions
fairsharing.org/community_champions/our_champions
Operational Team
Thank you!
fairsharing.org/communities#governance
www.rd-alliance.org/group/fairsharing-registry-connecting-data-policies-standards-databases.html