Implementation & Adoption Stories

Starting from a basic level of understanding, the participant sought to create a collection of FAIR Digital Objects and have it presented on the website with FAIR Signposting embedded to describe the objects and collection. Although not supported in their specific use case, the participant was able to gain valuable knowledge and experience in implementation on an example project.

With the goal of improving FAIRness of datasets at the Digital Repository of Ireland, the team implemented new controllers, helpers, and tests in their app and expanded its goals to support researchers in making datasets FAIR regardless of their chosen repository. 

Participants at Research Space sought to use ro-crate-java library to add metadata to their exported archives so that they satisfy the requirements of the Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) File format. They selected ROCrate as the exchange format, to facilitate data exchange among all those who exported through RO-Crate. 

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

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.