OA3: FAIR Assessment & Alignment

The programme for FAIR Assessment & Alignment, will address the intrinsic differences between FAIR assessment tools and methods and how you can enable FAIRness for your community and use cases.

The project representative FAIR-IMPACT and the Task Force co-chairs of Long-Term Data Preservation and FAIR Metrics and Data Quality offer an interactive programme covering the different aspects of FAIR assessment, the role of quality of digital objects within the EOSC framework and its impact on long-term preservation, addressing the challenges, the practical tools and the design of this cornerstone of the EOSC environment.

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Approach

In the programme FAIR Assessment & Alignment, the FAIR-EASE and FAIR-IMPACT projects and the EOSC Task Forces on Long-Term Data Preservation and FAIR Metrics and Data Quality provide an interactive, hands-on programme that leads us from introducing several FAIR assessment tools and methods and their relationship to the quality and preservation of digital objects, to a practical user guide of FAIR assessment, concluding in a collaborative work session where all input is gathered to design a feedback matrix on FAIR assessment initiatives for EOSC resources.

Objectives

Enhance knowledge on FAIR assessment tools, methods and FAIR implementation profiles and provide practical lessons on how to include FAIR assessment in project specific use cases and communities
Integrate the diverse landscape on FAIR assessment and bringing them into focus for HE EOSC-related projects and EOSC-A Task Forces

Outcomes

Condensing methods and tools on FAIR assessment and FAIR implementation into a transparent, accessible matrix for stakeholders of EOSC
IdentifyingIdentifinged shared challenges and collaboration opportunities between projects and Task Forces on developments surrounding FAIR Assessment, both for now and in for both the current day as the future

^{Tuesday afternoon}
FAIR assessment tools & methods
& long-term preservation
^{Wednesday morning}
FAIRness assessment feedback
& new opportunities
^{Wednesday afternoon}
FAIR in the EOSC environment
^{Thursday morning}
Wrap-up

Tuesday afternoon FAIR assessment tools & methods & long-term preservation

The FAIR assessment & alignment programme kicks off with a session organised by the project FAIR-IMPACT and the Task Forces Long-Term Data Preservation and FAIR Metrics and Data Quality.

The session dives into different FAIR assessment methods and tools. This interactive session will allow participants to try out different tools and methods, learning about the different benefits and limitations of the tools. The session will also look at the long-term preservation and quality of digital objects through different levels of FAIR-enabling practices and their implications for repository certification.

Objectives

Providing an overview of FAIR assessment tools and methods and their use.
Addressing the importance of quality and preservation of digital objects.

Outcomes

FAIR assessment tools and methods score differently to different situations or domains, which makes them challenging to implement and interpret hard to use. This session aims to lower the barriers to enter into FAIR assessment by discussing existing tools, while feeding off the outcomes of the Long Term Data Preservation Task Force to the developments on FAIR assessment & alignment.

FAIR assessment tools & methods & long-term preservation

Time: 14:00 – 18:00
Session chair: TBC
Session rapporteur: Chris de Loof

Timeslot	Activity	Format	Moderator / Facilitator	Content
14:00-14:10	Welcome	Opening talk	Mark Wilkinson TF FAIR Metrics and Data Quality	The participants are welcomed to the FAIR Assessment & Alignment sessions of the Winter School
14:10-14:55	Outcomes of Task Forces	Presentation	Roxanne Wyns TF Long-Term Data Preservation Chris Schubert TF FAIR Metrics and Data Quality	Task Force Co-Chairs Roxanne Wyns and Chris Schubers present important outcomes of their Task Forces Long data preservation and FAIR Metrics and Data Quality
14:55-15:30	Taking stock discussing the current landscape mentioned topics: 1. FAIR deposit vs FAIR access 2. Changing needs of technology and communities 3. The life cycle of FAIR Digital Objects and its semantics 4. Alignment between tools/mechanisms vs alignment between providers 5. Signposting	Presentation	Mark Wilkinson TF FAIR Metrics and Data Quality	This session will provide an Introduction into the most prominent challenges in FAIR Assessment & Alignment and serves as the starting point for the track of FAIR Assessment & Alignment of the Winter School
15:30 – 16:00	Break
16:00-17:45	Interactive workshop: participant target areas	workshop	Lead interactive workshop Mark Wilkinson TF FAIR Metrics and Data Quality Daniel Garijo FAIR-IMPACT/ TF Infrastructures for Quality Research Software Moderator discussion: Hervé L’Hours TF Long-Term Data Preservation	This workshop covers different tools and methods for FAIR Assessment and introduces the discussion on common representation and underlying differences between tools and methods.
17:45-18:00	Wrap up	Closing talk	Hervé L’Hours TF Long-Term Data Preservation	Closing the session

Wednesday morning FAIRness assessment feedback & new opportunities

This interactive session provides an opportunity for participants to share their best practices, challenges they face and experiences on FAIR assessment.

They will be guided to how FAIRness assessments can be integrated into the development of use cases and introduced in different communities. The session not only just builds on the methods and tools, but also stresses the importance of FAIR implementation and takes a deeper look at the challenges and gaps in FAIR Assessment.

Objectives

Through an interactive and practical session, the participants will be guided on how FAIR assessment can be integrated into their projects and use cases.

Outcomes

A better understanding of FAIR assessment for the participants and how this can be integrated in their own use cases, developments and communities.
A shared perspective on the underlying challenges and gaps in FAIR Assessment.

FAIRness assessment feedback
& new opportunities

Time: 09:30 – 12:30
Session Chair: TBC
Session rapporteur: Chris de Loof

Timeslot	Activity	Format	Moderator / Facilitator	Content
09:30-09:45	Recap of preceding session & look ahead	Presentation	Marthe Bierens	Opening the session with a short overview with the outcomes of the FAIR Assessment & Alignment track so far
09:45-11:00	Round table FAIR assessment implementation leading to: Discussion wider perspective on testing	Round table	Lead interactive workshopMark Wilkinson TF FAIR Metrics and Data Quality Daniel GarijoFAIR-IMPACT/ TF Infrastructures for Quality Research Software Moderator discussion: Hervé L’HoursTF Long-Term Data Preservation	In this session participants are asked to join a round table to share use cases, experiences, etc. from the different communities and target tools. The session will continue in a discussion onformat and consistency of reporting and what implications these challenges have for researchers, repositories and EOSC users.
11:00 – 11:15	[Break]
11:15-12:15	Gap analysis on guidance	Mapping exercise	Hervé L’HoursTF Long-Term Data Preservation Chris Schubert TF FAIR Metrics and Data Quality	Following the round table and discussion in the morning, the underlying gaps are mapped on guidance in FAIR assessment
12:15-12:30	Wrap up	Closing talk	Chris Schubert TF FAIR Metrics and Data Quality	Looking back on outcomes and results of the Wednesday morning session

Wednesday afternoon FAIR in the EOSC environment

In this work session you are all invited to include the lessons learned from the previous sessions and combine them into a feedback matrix designed for the EOSC stakeholders.

The standards of FAIRassessment, the FAIR implementation profiles and moving from generic feedback to fitted feedback will all be combined, providing an important base for future development work and recommendations for EOSC.

Objective

Gathering all shared information and lessons learned in a matrix that can serve as a basis of future development work of making FAIR assessment more transparent within the EOSC environment.

Outcome

A feedback matrix that can be used in future developments and provides recommendations for the EOSC community.

FAIR in the EOSC environment

Time: 15:00 – 19:00
Session Chair: TBC
Session rapporteur: Chris de Loof

Timeslot	Activity	Format	Moderator / Facilitator	Content
15:00-15:15	Recap of preceding session & look ahead	Presentation	Marthe Bierens EOSC Focus	Opening the session with a short overview with the outcomes of the FAIR Assessment & Alignment track so far
15:15-17:00	Interactive session: Building a feedback matrix on FAIR assessment and implementation	Workshop: Mindmapping	Mark Wilkinson TF FAIR Metrics and Data Quality	Assembling and harmonising a list of FAIR tests. The feedback matrix answers the question what to do when one test fails by giving clear advice and standards and different tests and FAIR implementation profiles. It also addresses trust issues by focussing on how to move from generic feedback to targeted feedback.
17:00 – 17:30	[Break]
17:30-18:00	Interactive session: Building a feedback matrix on FAIR assessment and implementation Structuring gaps, actions and accessreuse projects, TF and actors	Workshop: Mindmapping	Mark Wilkinson TF FAIR Metrics and Data Quality	Assembling and harmonising a list of FAIR tests. The feedback matrix answers the question what to do when one test fails by giving clear advice and standards and different tests and FAIR implementation profiles. It also addresses trust issues by focussing on how to move from generic feedback to targeted feedback.
18:00-19:00	Wrap up: Outcomes & Recommendations	Collective work session	Hervé L’Hours TF Long-Term Data Preservation	Collaborative session dedicated to documenting the outcomes of the session and formulating tangible recommendations by focussing on structure issues, gaps, actors and actions.

Thursday morning Wrap-up

Bios of the FAIR Assessment & Alignment sub-committee

Projects

EOSC-A Task Forces

MARK WILKINSON

Mark Wilkinson is BBVA-UPM Industry Chair on Biotechnology and a Isaac Peral Distinguished Researcher at the Center for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics, Polytechnic University of Madrid, and Adjunct Professor of Medical Genetics in the Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia. His research over the past decade has focused on the problem of enabling bio/medical researchers to execute their own data manipulation and analysis. Mark Wilkinson is co-chair of EOSC-A Task Force FAIR Metrics and Data Quality.

CHRIS SCHUBERT

Chris is Head of Media Management and Library-IT, TU Wien Bibliothek. Chris Schubert has been working for almost 20 years in data interoperability and semantics. He was heavily involved in the EU INSPIRE Directive at the European Commission, especially for data modeling and EU vocabulary management (Member of INSPIRE Vocabulary control body). In Austria, he was responsible for setting up a Climate Research Data Infrastructure between 2015 and 2020 and is currently working on semantic technologies for library services. From 2020 to 2023, he was chair of the GEO (Group on Earth Observation) Data Sharing and Data Management Principles Working Group. Chris Schubert is co-chair of EOSC-A Task Force FAIR Metrics and Data Quality. As a member of the ISO Technical Committee 211 (Geoinformatics), he is intensely involved in the ISO Terminology WG. Currently, the application as a national member at CODATA has been accepted. He is the representative of CODATA Austria.

ROXANNE WYNS

Roxanne Wyns is innovation manager at LIBIS, a digital support service of KU Leuven Libraries providing infrastructure and services for the findability and accessibility of KU Leuven’s vast collections. As innovation manager she specialises in FAIR data infrastructures and works on several domain specific research infrastructure projects that support the research groups in the FAIR management of their data collections.

She’s also involved in university wide and cross-domain initiatives in support of Open Science and FAIR data such as the realisation of the institutional research data repository. She participates in several OS and RDM initiatives in Flanders and Europe. Roxanne Wyns is co-chair of EOSC-A Task Force Long-Term Data Preservation Task Force.

HERVÉ L’HOURS

Hervé looks after repository and preservation issues at the UK Data Archive, based at the University of Essex and lead partner in the UK Data Service (UKDS). The UKDS is the UK Service Provider to CESSDA (the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives) where Hervé leads the Trust working group. The Archive is certified to CoreTrustSeal and ISO27001 for information security. Hervé’s background includes information systems, processes, design and implementation in the television, sports and scientific research sectors. Hervé L’Hours is co-chair of EOSC-A Task Force Long-Term Data Preservation and part of the FAIR-IMPACT project.

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OA3: FAIR Assessment & Alignment

The programme for FAIR Assessment & Alignment, will address the intrinsic differences between FAIR assessment tools and methods and how you can enable FAIRness for your community and use cases.

Approach

Objectives

Outcomes

The FAIR assessment & alignment programme kicks off with a session organised by the project FAIR-IMPACT and the Task Forces Long-Term Data Preservation and FAIR Metrics and Data Quality.

Objectives

Outcomes

This interactive session provides an opportunity for participants to share their best practices, challenges they face and experiences on FAIR assessment.

Objectives

Outcomes

In this work session you are all invited to include the lessons learned from the previous sessions and combine them into a feedback matrix designed for the EOSC stakeholders.

Objective

Outcome

Conclude your Winter School experience by reviewing all lessons learned in previous sessions and aligning with medium- and long-term objectives.

Bios of the FAIR Assessment & Alignment sub-committee

Projects

EOSC-A Task Forces

EOSC-A Board of Directors

Coordination & Support