Implementation & Adoption Stories

This FAIR Implementation Story outlines the specific aims and actions of Simula Research Laboratory in relation to their participation in one or both support actions.

FAIR Signposting and RO-Crate. During the 3-month support action, participants took part in three virtual workshops to implement FAIR Signposting and RO-Crate to improve the discovery and consumption of their content and metadata. Participants benefited from interacting with mentors representing FAIR Signposting and RO-Crate.

This FAIR Implementation Story outlines the specific aims and actions of AZTI in relation to their participation in the RPO support programme.

This FAIR Implementation Story outlines the specific aims and actions of FISABIO in relation to their participation in the RPO support programme.

This FAIR Implementation Story outlines the specific aims and actions of Research Stations of the Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences and the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry of the University of Helsinki in relation to their participation in the RPO support programme.

This FAIR Implementation Story outlines the specific aims and actions of Radboud University in relation to their participation in the RPO support programme.

. This FAIR Implementation Story outlines the specific aims and actions of the University of Milan in relation to their participation in the RPO support programme.

This FAIR Implementation Story outlines the specific aims and actions of Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje in relation to their participation in one or both support actions.

With the aim of improving metadata generation of the existing ADED portal and improving FAIRness by adding machine-readable metadata and signposting, a team from the Museum of Cultural History at the University of Oslo put forward the incorporation of automated RO-Crate generation and signposting as a work package in a funding application for the further development of DataverseNO.

This FAIR Implementation Story outlines the specific aims and actions of the Semantic Technologies team at ZB MED Information Centre for Life Sciences in relation to their participation in one or both support actions.

With the aim to enhance the FAIRness of a similarity searching tool in life sciences, we implemented improvements for the AlphaFind4 research software and data, while sharing the experience with implementers of the EOSC-CZ project.

This FAIR Implementation Story outlines the specific aims and actions of the University of Glasgow in relation to their participation in one or both support actions.

This FAIR Implementation Story addresses the implementation of the RSMD guidelines to two research software repositories: the Shape Expressions Mapping Language (ShExML) engine and the Data Mapping Access Objects Generator (DMAOG).

By promoting the cataloguing of software and supporting FAIR standards, VIVO plays an essential role in enhancing the visibility, impact, and reusability of research software, ultimately contributing to the advancement of science and innovation.

This FAIR Implementation Story outlines the specific aims and actions of IFREMER in relation to their participation in one or both support actions.

To encourage its adoption and increase the number of research software repositories documented with a codemeta.json file, we decided to use our technical skills and knowledge of the metadata and Software Heritage ecosystem to make the CodeMeta format more accessible.

Bioinformatics and Systems Biology lab is a young group established in 2024 at Brno University of Technology. As one of the few truly interdisciplinary labs combining computer science expertise with its own experimental laboratories worldwide, we aim to develop research software for microbiologists, biotechnologists, and molecular biologists. We joined the ‘Assessing the FAIRness of Software’ support action to understand better how to assess and improve the FAIRness of our research software.

This project consisted of first evaluating the FAIR level of the existing OCTOPUS software and then improving its FAIRness by following the main recommendations of the FAIR-IMPACT project.

In this action, we used F-UJI to assess our package (pybamm-param) and implemented all the essential (and most of important) RSMD guidelines.

This FAIR Implementation Story outlines the specific aims and actions of the University of Glasgow in relation to their participation in one or both support actions.

This FAIR Implementation Story outlines the specific aims and actions of Leipzig University in relation to their participation in one or both support actions.

This FAIR Implementation Story outlines the specific aims and actions of Utrecht University in relation to their participation in the Implementing the Research Software MetaData (RSMD) Guidelines - Path 2 - OC-RSMD-07.

This FAIR Implementation Story outlines the specific aims and actions of The Ersilia Open Source Initiative in relation to their participation in one or both support actions.

Participants from the Medical Informatics Laboratory at the University Medicine Greifswald and the Berlin Institute of Health in Germany sought guidance for using FAIR tools to undertake a FAIR assessment and improve the FAIRness of their Core Dataset, used within the German Medical Informatics Initiative.

Participants set out to explore implementations that allow the setting up of a data repository for Spanish research institutions that complies with the FAIR principles. During the opencall period, the team managed to install a Dataverse instance in the staging environment and check the FAIR Signposting and RO-Crate functionalities.

Software plays a crucial role in academic research, not only as a tool for data analysis but also as a research outcome or result, or even the object of research itself. FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) research software can increase the transparency, reproducibility, and reusability of research. For this to happen, software needs to be well-described (by metadata), inspectable, documented and appropriately structured so that it can be executed, replicated, built upon, combined, reinterpreted, reimplemented, and/or used in different settings.

In Luxembourg, LNDS provides services that support value creation through reuse of data made available by public sector organisations and research institutions. The initial plan the LNDS team had when enrolling in the program was to learn from the best practices of others on how support entities can grow national-level maturity in the adoption of FAIR data management and stewardship. LNDS is in the process of shaping its service portfolio, and in line with this as a second objective, they wanted to have an action plan that aligns with their service development roadmap and can be disseminated to the relevant national stakeholders.

The team of participants from the German National Library of Medicine (ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences) applied FAIR Signposting and RO-Crate to the team’s web pages as a proof-of-concept for later developments. The team web pages now support FAIR Signposting and RO-Crate for projects and theses, with the next step being implementation for software.

The team of participants from LIBIS at KU Leuven sought to implement signposting and RO-Crate integration in Dataverse (import and export). Since signposting was implemented in Dataverse before the start of the support action, focus shifted to implementing available features within the Dataverse instance.

Armed with previous experience of RO-Crate, the participant sought to implement RO-Crate support for their own fork of Dataverse and in the standard, stock Dataverse 6.0 codebase based on this fork. This was successfully achieved and submitted to the Dataverse GitHub. 

A team from the British Oceanographic Data Centre tested different methods and tools (10 simple rules, recommendations for FAIR semantics, O’FAIRe, FOOPS!, and F-UJI) in the task of assessing the FAIRness of their controlled vocabulary.

A researcher from the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) domain assessed the FAIRness of one of their datasets using F-UJI and an ontology using FOOPS! and FAIRsFAIR Semantic Recommendations, as part of broader ongoing efforts to understand the level of FAIRness in the LCA domain and gain insights to define good practice workflows for data sharing.

A team from FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure used F-UJI to assess the FAIRness of representative datasets from the RADAR4Chem repository, which helped them identify some improvements and inspired them to include a FAIRness check functionality in their repository.

A team from the Medical University of Gdansk (MUG) Main Library increased the FAIRness and machine readability of their repository datasets with the help of the F-UJI tool.

A team from Eurac Research assessed the FAIRness of a dataset hosted in their Environmental Data Platform using F-UJI and an ontology using O’FAIRe. After an initial low score in F-UJI, they implemented signposting to improve the machine interoperability of their metadata catalogue.

CNDUST implemented signposting Level 1 on PIST, which is the first Tunisian repository developed based on Invenio’s legacy version. Implementation of Signposting Level 2 on InvenioRDM was explored and started by one of the project partners.

A team from Radboud University’s Research Data Repository used FDMM and F-UJI to assess the FAIRness of their service and as a starting point to create an action plan to improve it.

The University of Novi Sad software research infrastructure development team implemented FAIR Signposting level 1 to improve the machine readability of their in-house developed platform for research outputs and information.

With the aim to improve the machine actionability of their Environmental Data Platform, a team from Eurac Research implemented signposting on their catalogue of geospatial datasets using a link set document.

A team involved in the Generations and Gender Programme tested F-UJI, FDMM and SHARC to assess the FAIRness of their longitudinal panel survey dataset.

The team from the Gdansk University of Technology Library and IT Center carried out a FAIRness assessment of datasets from their institutional multidisciplinary research data repository using the F-UJI tool with two goals in mind: increasing the FAIRness of the repository and learning about a tool that could be used to teach Ph.D. students about FAIR data and FAIRness assessments practically and visually.