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Margareta Hellström

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State of fairness in esfri projects

Author

  • Peter Wittenburg
  • Franciska de Jong
  • Dieter van Uytvanck
  • Massimo Cocco
  • Keith Jeffery
  • Michael Lautenschlager
  • Hannes Thiemann
  • Margareta Hellström
  • Ari Asmi
  • Petr Holub

Summary, in English

Since 2009 initiatives that were selected for the roadmap of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures started working to build research infrastructures for a wide range of research disciplines. An important result of the strategic discussions was that distributed infrastructure scenarios were now seen as “complex research facilities” in addition to, for example traditional centralised infrastructures such as CERN. In this paper we look at five typical examples of such distributed infrastructures where many researchers working in different centres are contributing data, tools/services and knowledge and where the major task of the research infrastructure initiative is to create a virtually integrated suite of resources allowing researchers to carry out state-of-the-art research. Careful analysis shows that most of these research infrastructures worked on the Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reusability dimensions before the term “FAIR” was actually coined. The definition of the FAIR principles and their wide acceptance can be seen as a confirmation of what these initiatives were doing and it gives new impulse to close still existing gaps. These initiatives also seem to be ready to take up the next steps which will emerge from the definition of FAIR maturity indicators. Experts from these infrastructures should bring in their 10-years’ experience in this definition process.

Department/s

  • Dept of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science

Publishing year

2020

Language

English

Pages

230-237

Publication/Series

Data Intelligence

Volume

2

Issue

1-2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

MIT Press

Topic

  • Computer and Information Science

Keywords

  • FAIR Metrics
  • GO FAIR Matrix
  • Infrastructure

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2096-7004