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Mark D. Wilkinson*, Michel Dumontier, Susanna-Assunta Sansone*, Luiz Olavo Bonino Da Silva Santos, Mario Prieto, Dominique Batista, Peter McQuilton, Tobias Kuhn, Philippe Rocca-Serra, Merce Crosas, Erik Schultes*
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Transparent evaluations of FAIRness are increasingly required by a wide range of stakeholders, from scientists to publishers, funding agencies and policy makers. We propose a scalable, automatable framework to evaluate digital resources that encompasses measurable indicators, open source tools, and participation guidelines, which come together to accommodate domain relevant community-defined FAIR assessments. The components of the framework are: (1) Maturity Indicators - community-authored specifications that delimit a specific automatically-measurable FAIR behavior; (2) Compliance Tests - small Web apps that test digital resources against individual Maturity Indicators; and (3) the Evaluator, a Web application that registers, assembles, and applies community-relevant sets of Compliance Tests against a digital resource, and provides a detailed report about what a machine "sees" when it visits that resource. We discuss the technical and social considerations of FAIR assessments, and how this translates to our community-driven infrastructure. We then illustrate how the output of the Evaluator tool can serve as a roadmap to assist data stewards to incrementally and realistically improve the FAIRness of their resources.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 174 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Scientific data |
Volume | 6 |
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Publication status | Published - 20 Sep 2019 |
Research output: Contribution to journal › Erratum / corrigendum / retractions › Academic