Are the FAIR Data Principles fair?
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Are the FAIR Data Principles fair?
Journal Article (2020)
Author(s)
Alastair Dunning (TU Delft - Research Data and Software)
Madeleine de Smaele (TU Delft - Research Data and Software)
Jasmin Boehmer (TU Delft - Research Data and Software)
Research Group
Research Data and Software
DOI related publication
https://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v12i2.567
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Publication Year
2020
Language
English
Research Group
Research Data and Software
Issue number
2
Volume number
12
Pages (from-to)
177-195
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Abstract
This practice paper describes an ongoing research project to test the effectiveness and relevance of the FAIR Data Principles. Simultaneously, it will analyse how easy it is for data archives to adhere to the principles. The research took place from November 2016 to January 2017, and will be underpinned with feedback from the repositories.\ \ The FAIR Data Principles feature 15 facets corresponding to the four letters of FAIR - Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable. These principles have already gained traction within the research world. The European Commission has recently expanded its demand for research to produce open data. The relevant guidelines1are explicitly written in the context of the FAIR Data Principles. Given an increasing number of researchers will have exposure to the guidelines, understanding their viability and suggesting where there may be room for modification and adjustment is of vital importance.\ \ This practice paper is connected to a dataset(Dunning et al.,2017) containing the original overview of the sample group statistics and graphs, in an Excel spreadsheet. Over the course of two months, the web-interfaces, help-pages and metadata-records of over 40 data repositories have been examined, to score the individual data repository against the FAIR principles and facets. The traffic-light rating system enables colour-coding according to compliance and vagueness. The statistical analysis provides overall, categorised, on the principles focussing, and on the facet focussing results.\ \ The analysis includes the statistical and descriptive evaluation, followed by elaborations on Elements of the FAIR Data Principles, the subject specific or repository specific differences, and subsequently what repositories can do to improve their information architecture.
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