FAIR Maturity Model

[CaroleGoble]

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• R. Gardler (2010) Software Sustainability Maturity Model http://oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/ssmm (accessed 12 Aug 2016) has a useful list
• TOP Guidelines https://osf.io/9f6gx/
• TRL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_readiness_level

One thing for sure - FAIR is not not ALL OR NOTHING. Must be Incremental.

[sjDCC]

Thanks for this @CaroleGoble - very useful. I completely agree with you that FAIR is a scale and even small steps to improve the FAIRness of data are incredibly beneficial