Implementation & Adoption Stories

The FAIR-IMPACT Implementation stories illustrate good practices in research communities and organisations to support the implementation of the FAIR principles.

Implementation Story
ImplementationStoryCover_FAIR Implementation Story of Schrödinger API: A RESTful Web Service for Solving the Multidimensional Time independent Schrödinger
Assessing and improving existing research software
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.
Implementation Story
ImplementationStoryCover_FAIR Signposting and RO Crate for the University of Oslo’s Archaeological Digital Excavation Documentation
FAIR signposting and RO-Crate
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.
Implementation Story
ImplementationStoryCover_FAIRness assessment using F-UJI for selected research software repositories in the SemTec team at ZB MED Equation
Assessing and improving existing research software
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.
Implementation Story
ImplementationStoryCover_Improving the FAIRness of a  similarity search application with associated data in the life science domain
Assessing and improving existing research software
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.
Implementation Story
ImplementationStoryCover_FAIR Metrics for Research Software: Automated and Manual Testing of the FAIR Data Pipeline
Assessing and improving existing research software
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.
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ImplementationStoryCover_Improving FAIRness of ShExML and DMAOG and metadata creation workflow
Assessing and improving existing research software
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.
Implementation Story
ImplementationStoryCover_Alignment of the VIVO ontology and platform with CodeMeta
Assessing and improving existing research software
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.
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ImplementationStoryCover_Scoop-Argo: Open-Source Software Development, Preservation, and Collaboration
Assessing and improving existing research software
This FAIR Implementation Story outlines the specific aims and actions of IFREMER in relation to their participation in one or both support actions.
Implementation Story
ImplementationStoryCover_Developing tools to support the creation of CodeMeta files
Assessing and improving existing research software
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.
Implementation Story
ImplementationStoryCover_FAIRification of Augusta, Research Software for Gene Regulatory Networks and Boolean Models Inference
Assessing and improving existing research software
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.
Implementation Story
ImplementationStoryCover_Towards greater visibility and re-use of software developed within the SeaDataNet infrastructure:  the example of OCTOPUS Software
Assessing and improving existing 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.
Implementation Story
ImplementationStoryCover_ Implementing the RSMD  guidelines for the benefit  of the battery modelling  community
Assessing and improving existing research software
In this action, we used F-UJI to assess our package (pybamm-param) and implemented all the essential (and most of important) RSMD guidelines.
Implementation Story
ImplementationStoryCover_Implementing the Research Software MetaData (RSMD) guidelines for EcoJulia
Assessing and improving existing research software
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.
Implementation Story
ImplementationStoryCover_Evaluating the FAIRness of Health Research Software at Leipzig University Using an Automated FAIR Assessment Tool
Assessing and improving existing research software
This FAIR Implementation Story outlines the specific aims and actions of Leipzig University in relation to their participation in one or both support actions.
Implementation Story
ImplementationStoryCover_Promoting SearchSECO through the RSMD Guidelines
Assessing and improving existing research software
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.
Implementation Story
ImplementationStoryCover_Improving the FAIRness of the Ersilia Model Hub for AI-based drug discovery
Assessing and improving existing research softwar
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.
Implementation Story
ImplementationStoryCover_Applying the FAIR Data Maturity Model at the German Medical Data Integration Centers
FAIRness Assessment Challenge
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.
Implementation Story
ImplementationStoryCover_Implementing FAIR Signposting and RO-Crate for Spanish research institutions
FAIR Signposting and RO-Crate
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.
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Assessing and improving existing research software
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.
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National Level Initiatives
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.
Implementation Story
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FAIR Signposting and RO-Crate
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.
Implementation Story
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FAIR Signposting and RO-Crate
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.
Implementation Story
Implementing RO-Crate support for the ARP data repository platform at the Institute for Computer Science and Control
FAIR Signposting and RO-Crate
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. 
Implementation Story
ImplementationStoryCover_FAIRness assessment of  vocabularies: Insights from  the British Oceanographic  Data Centre team
FAIRness Assessment Challenge
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.
Implementation Story
ImplementationStoryCover_FAIRness assessment in the Life Cycle Assessment domain
FAIRness Assessment Challenge
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.
Implementation Story
ImplementationStoryCover_FAIRness assessment as a catalyst of chemistry research repository transformation in Germany
FAIRness Asssement Challenge
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.
Implementation Story
ImplementationStoryCover_Making the metadata machine-readable to increase FAIRness of medical data in Poland
FAIRness Asssement Challenge
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.
Implementation Story
ImplementationStoryCover_FAIRness assessment of datasets and ontologies at Eurac Research
FAIRness Asssement Challenge
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.
Implementation Story
ImplementationStoryCover_FAIR Signposting for current and future versions of the Tunisian portal for research outputs
FAIR signposting and RO-Crate
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.
Implementation Story
FI_ImplementationStory Cover_Navigating FAIR Waters: A Journey of Transformation for Radboud University’s Data Repository
FAIRness Asssement Challenge
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.
Implementation Story
ImplementationStoryCover_Implementing FAIR signposting
FAIR Signposting and RO-Crate
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.
Implementation Story
ImplementationStoryCover_Implementing FAIR signposting to Eurac
FAIR Signposting and RO-Crate
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.
Implementation Story
ImplementationStoryCover_FAIRness Assessment of Generations and Gender
FAIRness Asssement Challenge
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.
Implementation Story
ImplementationStoryCover_F-UJIforFAIRnessAssessment
FAIRness Assessment Challenge
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.