Open FrTr opened 7 years ago
Dear Frank, I am not familiar with your community research at KIT (?). Can you please share your published work here? Starting in August 2017 I will execute case studies in a few subjects here at TU Delft and would like to know more about your work on the topic.
Many thanks in advance! Jasmin
Dear Jasmin,
in German we have a report and user stories online. There are also some slides in English, that summarize the results, but of course cannot go into details. Section 3.3.2 of this work covers a few aspects of our report in English. Unfortunately I didn't have time or funding to translate the report into English (it has 150 pages). The report was made for our German funding institution (Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg (MWK)). If you have special questions, you can also directly contact me. My or my successors contact information is here on the right side.
BioITWorld FAIR Hackathon http://www.bio-itworldexpo.com/fair-data-hackathon/ also focused on FAIR approaches to Pharmaceutical data.
Incidentally the latest IMI call is about Fairification https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/imi2-2017-12-02.html,
Presentation Title: FAIRShake: Toolkit to Enable the FAIRness Assessment of Biomedical Digital Objects
Abstract: While it is clear that there will be a benefit in making biomedical digital objects more FAIR, the FAIR principles are abstract and high level. FAIRShake brings these principles into practice by encouraging digital object producers to make their products more FAIR. The FAIRShake toolkit is designed to enable the biomedical research community to assess the FAIRness of biomedical research digital objects. These include: repositories, databases, tools, journal and book publications, courses, scientific meetings and more. The FAIRShake toolkit uses the FAIR insignia to display the results FAIR assessments. The insignia symbolizes the FAIRness of a digital object according to 16 FAIR metrics. Each square on the insignia represents the average answer to a FAIR metric question. The FAIRShake Chrome extension inserts the insignia into web-sites that list biomedical digital objects. Users can see the insignia and also contribute evaluations by clicking on the insignia. It is also possible to embed the insignia without the need for a Chrome extension and initiate FAIR evaluation projects using the FAIRShake web-site directly. Currently, the FAIRShake web site enlists four projects: evaluation of the LINCS tools and datasets, evaluation of the MOD repositories, evaluations of over 5,000 bioinformatics tools and databases, and evaluations of the repositories listed on DataMed. The project is at an early prototyping phase so it is not ready for broad use.
Frank raises a couple of different aspects - some have been commented by others. Let me try to find my way. I should add here that I have some knowledge of what is being done at KIT and we had some collaborations - also on questions Frank is raising.
So thanks for your great input which we need to consider in the report.
Thanks for the FAIRShake reference @CaroleGoble I've found a link to a short video on youtube but if you have other literature references we should follow up that would be great.
I just looked at the FAIRshake video and it is indeed pritty cool. if I got it right, it's finally the crowds view on the fairness of DOs. So this makes it complementary to approaches such as DSA/WDS where people do self-assessment based on rule sets. Thanks Carole Peter
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To what extent are the FAIR principles alone sufficient to reduce fragmentation and increase interoperability? The principles have a great potential to influence the minds of stakeholders towards more efficient data sharing and reuse, but perhaps additional measures and more specifics are needed to guide implementation?
What are the necessary components of a FAIR data ecosystem in terms of technologies, standards, legal framework, skills etc?
What existing components can be built on, and are there promising examples of joined-up architectures and interoperability around research data such as those based on Digital Objects?
Do we need a layered approach to tackle the complexity of building a global data infrastructure ecosystem, and if so, what are the layers? Which global initiatives are working on relevant architectural frameworks to put FAIR into practice?
A large proportion of data-driven research has been shown to not be reproducible. Do we need to turn to automated processing guided by documented workflows, and if so how should this be organised?
What kind of roles and professions are required to put the FAIR principles into place?