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Visit the online version of our newsletter! Editorial Dear GO FAIR community, In this editorial we focus on the use of FAIR data and approaches in the scope of the ongoing COVID-19 Global crisis. The current situation proves that FAIR is not only of great relevance within science, but also meets a very real need beyond science. We have therefore asked Erik Schultes to share with our community the developments in our COVID-19 related Implementation network VODAN, and specifically also its spin-off for other GO FAIR Implementation Networks as well as the upcoming CODATA/GO FAIR symposium. His contribution follows: The Virus Outbreak Data Network (VODAN) finalised its manifesto March 10, the day before the WHO declared that COVID-19 can be characterized as a pandemic. With a sense of urgency that continues to stimulate its members 6 months later, the VODAN IN set out to find practical implementations making SARS CoV-2 virus data more Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and thus Reusable for humans and for their machine assistants. Although we might anticipate that FAIR data and services could in general help mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic, VODAN's stated objectives are to have mature FAIR capabilities at the ready, in preparation to manage the inevitable infectious disease outbreaks of the future. The VODAN IN was launched with two small projects having very similar, and very prescribed goals: Install a FAIR range of distributed data repositories hosting a machine-actionable version of the World Health Organisation's standard COVID-19 Case Report Form. A key objective was to demonstrate that COVID data can be made available for analytics without having to be copied or moved from the location where it was originally collected. This allows the data (especially privacy-sensitive data) to remain at all times in the custodianship of the data producers. In one of the projects, funded by the Dutch ZonMW, the FAIR repository was to be set up in the Leiden University Medical Centre in The Netherlands, while the sister project funded by the Phillips Foundation targeted the medical centre of Kampala International University (KIU) in Uganda. The African project soon expanded to five other African countries now composing the VODAN Africa project. With haste, collaborative teams within the GFISCO, LUMC and KIU went into action deploying FAIR tools and practices that were already available, and rapidly developed other resources so as to create a complete, real-world FAIRification process that would be easily replicable by others. On July 22 Mariam Basajja, a PhD student from Kampala International University and? Leiden University, launched the first VODAN FAIR Data Point. This was followed in rapid succession by two VODAN FAIR Data Points in Nigeria and now others in Ethiopia, Tunisia, Kenya and Zimbabwe (VODAN Africa timeline). On August 31, the LUMC FAIR Data Point went on line, and two days later on September 2, a Technical Session was held between Leiden University Medical Center and VODAN Africa teams to initiate the discussions leading to the documentation of specifications for the VODAN FDP and the demonstration of inter-continental query.? What has emerged in VODAN is the beginnings of a FAIR data network that could find widespread reuse in other regions and in other topical domains. This practical, project-driven FAIRification approach has now been encapsulated as the 3-Point FAIRification Framework, which is proving to be as effective in communication as it is in deployment. For example, the 3-Point FAIRification Framework is now finding application in the larger Dutch National COVID-19 Research Program, where individual research projects will be using Metadata for Machine Workshops, contributing to FAIR Implementation Profiles and launching potentially many more FAIR Data Points to publish FAIR research outputs. Although the disruption and fatalities of the pandemic leave their impact on all of us, the streamlining of FAIR implementation we witness in VODAN will leave us much better prepared for future outbreaks and could be reused for many other FAIR applications.? The 3-Point FAIRification Framework will guide several domain communities to drive their FAIRification efforts in preparation for the FAIR Convergence Symposium. Series of practical workshops are being organised with enthusiastic early-mover communities. An initial Orientation meeting to provide background on the 3-Point FAIRification Framework will be held on 21 September and will be recorded. All the best, *** Did you know. GO Read In this section you will learn about Implementation Networks that have recently acquired "active" status, recent IN activities and opportunities. This way, we ensure that you always stay on top of things happening in the "GO FAIR" family. New "active" GO FAIR Implementation Network:
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"To enhance treatment of data according to the FAIR principles, we suggest that organisations should be assessed on the basis of how well they support their researchers in becoming FAIR advocates."? GO Meet This section gives you an overview of conferences and workshops where you can meet up (virtually) with fellow GO FAIR members if you happen to attend the same event or are in the same town.? In order for this category to work we do need your help! Please drop us a line at newsletter@go-fair.org and tell us where you can be met in the future. External events Meet INs:
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People of GO FAIR In this section we would like to introduce you to members of our GO FAIR family. In each newsletter we will provide you with a short profile of one to two GO FAIR members. IN representatives:? Oya Beyan, Andre Dekker, Oliver Kohlbacher, IN Coordinators of the Personal Health Train IN?
Executive Board representative:? Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Member of the GO FAIR Executive Board & one of the IN Coordinators of FAIR StRePo IN
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Dear GO FAIR Community, We would like to inform you about a change of format and dates of our International FAIR Convergence Symposium.? Reflecting on good practices and challenges involved in putting on successful online events, we decided to change the format and the dates for the Symposium. The International FAIR Convergence Symposium will now take place as a fully virtual event from 30 November to 4 December. Please save the dates!? In order to facilitate the new approach, and in response to a number of enquiries, we have also extended the deadline for submissions of session proposals to 30 September and of posters and lightning talks to 31 October. See also https://conference.codata.org/FAIRconvergence2020/.? We have reflected on numerous online events and lessons learned and decided that trying to maintain a combined physical and virtual format posed too many technical challenges. To ensure an engaging and dynamic event, with clear outcomes, the organisers now envision the Symposium as a series of online sessions, dispersed over one week to accommodate a range of timezones as best as possible.? The symposium will feature plenary sessions, discussion sessions and collaborative workshop sessions.? Each day will include sessions at Asia-friendly times, Africa and Europe-friendly times and Americas-friendly times. Recognising the challenges of virtual events, the programme will ensure that there are substantial gaps between the sessions. We propose to schedule sessions in parallel as necessary in each of these slots and we will seek to accommodate excellent proposals in preferred slots to the greatest extent possible. As the Symposium theme is Convergence and discussion on FAIR implementation, we wish to explore the interaction provided by a virtual format to the greatest extent possible. Proposers are encouraged to ensure that their session is dynamic, interactive and output-oriented.? Workshop-style sessions are strongly encouraged. The default duration of sessions will be 120 minutes to allow for such formats. Session organisers will be encouraged to post video presentations in advance of the session, whenever possible, to support and maximise the time for discussion and collaboration. We hope that the new dates will work for those already registered for the event. If not, please kindly contact us at conference@codata.org. We will change registrations for in-person attendance to virtual participation.? With best wishes, *** Why do I get this newsletter?? If you receive this newsletter, then you have given us permission to inform you about further developments and events of the GO FAIR Initiative. How can other interested readers subscribe?? Interested readers can easily subscribe to our newsletter by completing this sign-up form: https://www.go-fair.org/newsletter-subscription/ How can I unsubscribe if I no longer wish to receive this newsletter?? You can unsubscribe from our newsletter by filling out this form: https://www.go-fair.org/newsletter-unsubscribe-form/ |
Visit the online version of our newsletter! Editorial Dear GO FAIR community, The global grand challenges of our age - including climate change mitigation, sustainable development, disaster risk reduction, response to infectious disease pandemics, resilience in cities and other complex human environments - all depend on the ability to combine, analyse, and visualise data from heterogeneous sources created in different knowledge domains. To achieve widespread FAIR data and associated services needed to meet these grand challenges, diverse stakeholders must choose their FAIR implementations wisely. This process of informed and coordinated decision-making is convergence, and is the theme of the International FAIR Convergence Symposium 2020 (27 November - 04 December 2020) that we are co-hosting with CODATA.? We are looking forward to soon coming together with researchers, scientists, data stewards and curators, infrastructure service providers and many more from all over the world to advance cross-domain convergence around FAIR. We have received? many interesting session proposals, which were thoroughly reviewed, and we are eager to share the programme with you: https://conference.codata.org/FAIRconvergence2020/programme/ Registration is open until Monday, 16 November 2020: https://conference.codata.org/conference/FAIRconvergence2020/registration/ In preparation of this FAIR convergence symposium GO FAIR is organizing pre-symposium workshops led by Erik Schultes with a focus on FAIR Implementation Profiles and convergence for different research communities. On 19 November participants of all workshops will reconvene to propose convergence strategies which will be reported during our FAIR Symposium. Read a short report about these workshops on our website.? All the best, *** Did you know. GO Read In this section you will learn about Implementation Networks that have recently acquired "active" status, recent IN activities and opportunities. This way, we ensure that you always stay on top of things happening in the "GO FAIR" family. Reports from internal events
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Interesting reads from the INs
GO Meet This section gives you an overview of conferences and workshops where you can meet up (virtually) with fellow GO FAIR members if you happen to attend the same event or are in the same town.? In order for this category to work we do need your help! Please drop us a line at newsletter@go-fair.org and tell us where you can be met in the future. External events Meet INs:
Meet GFISCO:
Meet GFISCO:
People of GO FAIR In this section we would like to introduce you to members of our GO FAIR family. In each newsletter we will provide you with a short profile of one to two GO FAIR members. IN representatives:? Giovanni Pizzi, IN Coordinator of the Materials Cloud IN?
Executive Board representative:? Peter Kraker, Member of the GO FAIR Executive Board & IN Coordinator of the Discovery IN
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Visit the online version of our newsletter! Editorial Dear GO FAIR community, Cross-disciplinary research data stewardship is more important than ever. If nothing else, we were surely taught (again) over the last few months about the necessity of making data and objects globally findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR) across the different research disciplines to answer societal relevant research questions. Our International FAIR Convergence Symposium, that we co-organize with CODATA, seeks to advance international and cross-domain convergence around FAIR, and we strongly invite you to submit your proposals for sessions by 20 July, and posters as well as lightning talks by 21 August.? The central topics of the symposium include crisis reduction and response in relation to the COVID-19 outbreak, FAIR specifications, FAIR society, and data stewardship training and career opportunities. We listed examples under each theme on our dedicated symposium website, but you are welcome to submit proposals on other topics related to the four themes. Let us join forces and tackle some of the major global challenges we are facing together!? The conference dates, 22-23 October 2020, might be extended or shifted due to COVID-19 related venue challenges. We promise to inform you as soon as possible in case of any changes. We would also like to seize this opportunity to highlight a recent development that accommodates the exponentially growing demand for GO FAIR support and coordination since the VODAN IN was launched 14 weeks ago: the three-point framework for FAIRification efforts which allows stakeholders to more easily organise themselves into productive relations and to see what "going" FAIR means in practice. Visit our website for more information on the Three-point FAIRification framework. All the best, *** Did you know. GO Read In this section you will learn about Implementation Networks that have recently acquired "active" status, recent IN activities and opportunities. This way, we ensure that you always stay on top of things happening in the "GO FAIR" family. New "active" GO FAIR Implementation Network: Materials Cloud Reports from internal events
Outputs
Opportunities
Interesting reads from the INs
GO Meet This section gives you an overview of conferences and workshops where you can meet up (virtually) with fellow GO FAIR members if you happen to attend the same event or are in the same town.? In order for this category to work we do need your help! Please drop us a line at newsletter@go-fair.org and tell us where you can be met in the future. External events Meet INs:
Meet GFISCO:
INternal events:
Meet GFISCO:
People of GO FAIR In this section we would like to introduce you to members of our GO FAIR family. In each newsletter we will provide you with a short profile of one to two GO FAIR members. IN representative:? Peter Mutschke, IN Coordinator of GO Inter?
Executive Board representative:? Suzanne Dumouchel, Vice Chair of the GO FAIR Executive Board & one of the coordinators of the CO-OPERAS IN
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Visit the online version of our newsletter! ? Editorial Dear GO FAIR community, This issue of the Newsletter will have a significantly longer editorial than what you are used to. The reason is that we are at a natural inflection point with GO FAIR, where we need to collectively reflect on our achievement and future ambitions. GO FAIR was originally conceived as a temporary initiative, with the aim to 'kick-start' early developments towards the EOSC, while taking on an additional global perspective. After a little over two years on a roller coaster of amazing community building, we can conclude that GO FAIR achieved a visibility which is much higher than we expected. The main reason is that the instrument we chose, Open Implementation Networks (INs), clearly answered an unmet need. At the annual meeting of INs in Hamburg, 84 IN colleagues joined at their own costs. Around 25 communities were represented, and we started a conscious process of convergence, aiming mainly at interoperability for reuse. In October of this year, the CODATA/GO FAIR International FAIR Convergence Symposium has been scheduled where we expect not only our current INs but we will reach a much broader community, brought in from the CODATA side. So, GO FAIR created a vibrant community that is here to stay. This prompts the need to think about the future. What will happen to GO FAIR when the current seed funding from the three founding countries runs out? Where will the INs find a home for the rest of their intended life time? What is the role of the regional and national offices that begin to emerge? How will GO FAIR 'sublimate' in the EOSC ecosystem in Europe? How does it compliment other internationally data mandated organisations, such as the Research Data Alliance (RDA), World Data Systems (WDS) and the Committee on Data (CODATA)? In the spirit of GO FAIR, ultimately, the answer to many of these questions should be given by the GO FAIR community itself, not just by the GO FAIR International Support and Coordination Office GFISCO. Let us try to reflect on these questions, without pretending to have the answers ready. The likely future: A 'legal entity' will most likely be formed that will govern the EOSC. That would logically mark the time-point where the (EU) kick start function of GO FAIR is completed. The fact that such an active and apparently useful and open 'network of Implementation Networks' has so rapidly developed, clearly has an added value next to the formal research infrastructures. This would indicate that the 'support and coordination function' of the current offices needs to be sustained. We currently have national GO FAIR offices in Brazil, France, Germany and the USA and several other countries are in the process of organizing their FAIR related endeavors and relationships with the four data mandated organisations (RDA, WDS, CODATA and GO FAIR). The creation of the formal EOSC governance? offers potential to establish a 'EU regional office' for GO FAIR type activities. Discussions around new offices in other continents are underway in the Asian-Pacific region (21 countries), with strong roles for Malaysia (the ISC regional office) and China (The CODATA national committee). In Australia, the new Australian Research Data Commons is a natural landing place. In many cases, these 'offices', coming in many shapes and forms, also deal with RDA, WDS and CODATA aspects. Now that these four organisations have come to a joint statement about their complementarities and to express their strong intention to collaborate where appropriate, this also looks like a very natural development. Regions, and countries (such as the German National Research Data Infrastructure, the EOSC, the Chinese Sciences and Technology Cloud, the African Open Science Platform, the US Open Knowledge, etc) need to deal with international standards and agreements in order to ensure that whatever research infrastructures they build are globally connected and interoperable. Science is (or at least should be) a global public good. Combining these relationships as part and parcel of the organisations that deal with the national and regional research infrastructures, it seems a socially responsible next evolution. The GO FAIR directors and the Steering Committee, in close consultation with the Executive Board, representing the INs will actively work on a non-disruptive transition strategy that will ensure continuous support for the INs. All the best, *** Did you know. GO Read In this section you will learn about Implementation Networks that have recently acquired "active" status, recent IN activities and opportunities. This way, we ensure that you always stay on top of things happening in the "GO FAIR" family. New "active" GO FAIR Implementation Network: VODAN IN Outputs
Opportunities
Interesting reads from the INs
GO Meet This section gives you an overview of conferences and workshops where you can meet up (virtually) with fellow GO FAIR members if you happen to attend the same event or are in the same town.? In order for this category to work we do need your help! Please drop us a line at newsletter@go-fair.org and tell us where you can be met in the future. External events Meet GFISCO:
INternal events
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People of GO FAIR In this section we would like to introduce you to members of our GO FAIR family. In each newsletter we will provide you with a short profile of one to two GO FAIR members. IN representative:? Mirjam van Reisen, IN Coordinator of the IN-Africa as well as one of the Coordinators of the Ambassadors IN
Executive Board representative:? Ronald Cornet, Chair of the GO FAIR Executive Board & IN representative of the Rare Diseases IN
*** Why do I get this newsletter?? If you receive this newsletter, then you have given us permission to inform you about further developments and events of the GO FAIR Initiative. How can other interested readers subscribe?? Interested readers can easily subscribe to our newsletter by completing this sign-up form: https://www.go-fair.org/newsletter-subscription/ How can I unsubscribe if I no longer wish to receive this newsletter?? You can unsubscribe from our newsletter by filling out this form: https://www.go-fair.org/newsletter-unsubscribe-form/ |
Visit the online version of our newsletter! ? Editorial Dear GO FAIR community,
In an active attempt to accelerate convergence, the 27 topically diverse INs gathered in Hamburg took the opportunity to explore areas of existing and future cross-IN/cross-domain convergence. In a series of flash presentations, each IN identified the primary community interactions that could lead to the reuse of existing resources (standards and technology) for implementing FAIR and other aspects of FAIR best practices. Simple examples include the commitment within and between INs to reuse particular persistent identifiers like the use of ORCID for people, or the use of a particular ontology for describing soil types. More complex examples are decisions to reuse entire architectures like the distributed learning platforms of the Personal Health Train IN and the Farm Data Train for the Food Systems IN. In addition to the developing role of the FAIR Convergence Matrix and FAIR Implementation Profiles, a less formal survey of the cross-IN/cross-domain collaboration was compiled from the flash presentations.? The results of the survey show the beginnings of a network of interactions that rarely happen spontaneously and are almost impossible to track without FAIR approaches. The GFISCO will continue to track and showcase examples of Implementation Network convergence, providing targets for other INs to aim for in striving toward broader agreements on FAIR practices throughout the GO FAIR Community. All the best,? Erik Schultes, International Science Coordinator GFISCO, Guest Editor *** Did you know. GO Read In this section you will learn about Implementation Networks that have recently acquired "active" status, recent IN activities and opportunities. This way, we ensure that you always stay on top of things happening in the "GO FAIR" family. New "active" GO FAIR Implementation Network: FAIR Microbiome IN The cross-cutting nature of microbiome research in environmental sciences, health, agriculture, energy, and natural and built environments requires the development of new solutions and community coordination to tackle grand challenges that will accelerate basic discovery and lead to transformative advances. The National Microbiome Data Collaborative (NMDC) aims to tackle infrastructure challenges in microbiome data science through developing a community-centric framework. The FAIR Microbiome Implementation Network seeks to align and synergize the efforts of the NMDC with that of the GO FAIR community. The NMDC believes that by fostering community support for FAIR data stewardship practices, they will greatly accelerate the discovery process and enable effective communication within the community. IN coordinator is Stanton Martin. Marine Data Centres IN The Marine Data Centres IN, launched by the SeaDataNet consortium, aims primarily at optimising machine-to-machine FAIRness of the harmonised marine data and data products held at the main marine data centres in Europe and beyond. The focus of activities is on improving the I(nteroperability) and R(eusability) of data. The IN is looking for synergies with other players in the same domain via EU and global initiatives. The SeaDataNet consortium is a community of more than 50 partners from 35 countries in and around Europe managing access to large collections of data derived in situ of the seas and oceans. SeaDataNet is defining and implementing standards for re-use of marine data and enables their uptake in regional, European and global products to support policy makers, science, and industry. IN Coordinators: Michele Fichaut, Dick Schaap. GO NANOFAB IN The GO NANOFAB IN aims to work towards improving capabilities for capturing, storing and making accessible data, parameters and workflows from nanofabrication (NF) process chains by using the FAIR approach. The IN will provide a forum for the Nanofabrication community to agree on metadata content rich enough to enable workflows or modular steps developed in any participating cleanroom to be exportable to the wider community. GO NANOFAB IN seeks to develop information systems for cleanroom machines able to process FAIR cleanroom data, reach an agreement on the standardisation of cleanroom process steps description and data sharing, promote best practices on data management, develop certified NF data management centers, identify accessibility conditions for NF data release, and encourage the dissemination of potential solutions towards the implementation of FAIR approaches in NF processes. IN Coordinators: Michel de Labachelerie, Peter K?llensperger, Vittorio Morandi. Reports from internal events
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GO Meet This section gives you an overview of conferences and workshops where you can meet up with fellow GO FAIR members if you happen to attend the same event or are in the same town. We think that it is always more pleasant to interact face-to-face rather than just virtually.? In order for this category to work we do need your help! Please drop us a line at newsletter@go-fair.org and tell us where you can be met in the future. External events Meet INs:
Meet GFISCO:
INternal events
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People of GO FAIR In this section we would like to introduce you to members of our GO FAIR family. In each newsletter we will provide you with a short profile of two GO FAIR members: one IN representative and one Steering Committee representative. IN representatives:? Dr Anne-Sophie Archambeau, IN Coordinator of the BiodiFAIRse IN
Dr Yvan Le Bras, IN Coordinator of the BiodiFAIRse IN
Steering Committee representative:? Prof Dr Jean-Pierre Vilotte, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP)
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