Implementation & Adoption Stories

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.