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FAIR Pointers: Glossary

Key Points

FAIR and its origins

  • FAIR stands for Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable

  • Metadata, Identifiers, Registration and Access are 4 key components in the process of FAIRification

  • FAIR data is as open as possible, and as closed as necessary
Metadata

  • Metadata is data about data

  • Metadata is used to help you find and interpret data

  • Domain-relevant community standards helps researchers write better, interoperable metadata
Data registration

  • A good way to FAIRify your (meta)data is through submission to a public repository, if it indexes and exposes the appropriate level of metadata to serve your specific use case or serve your envisaged users

  • Use Repositories that support controlled access to data if necessary

  • FAIRsharing is a useful resource to locate relevant public repositories
Access

  • Data access is supported by standardised communication protocols allowing for authentication where appropriate

  • Metadata must be available even if data are deleted

  • Data usage licences are applied to (meta)data detailing terms of use

  • Sensitive data can be subject to restricted access and/or de-identification
Persistent identifiers

  • PIDs are eternal and unique

  • PIDs are commonly URLs in the Life Sciences

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