CODATA is the coordinator of a major new project: ‘WorldFAIR: Global cooperation on FAIR data policy and practice’, funded by the European Commission through its Horizon Europe Framework Programme, project call HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01-01, grant agreement 101058393.
Led by CODATA, with the Research Data Alliance association as a major partner, the WorldFAIR project began on 1 June 2022 and works with a set of case studies to advance implementation of the FAIR data principles, in particular those for Interoperability, and to develop a set of recommendations and a framework for FAIR assessment in a set of disciplines, or cross-disciplinary research areas.
We explore features of an emerging Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework with 11 case studies from the physical, social, agricultural and environmental sciences and the cultural heritage sector, and prepare FAIR Implementation Profiles, appropriately adapted to each (cross-)discipline area. This will lead to, and help inform, a fuller mapping of current best practices and emerging solutions and initiatives for FAIR data in these domains.
WorldFAIR runs for 24 months from 1 June 2022. The project is a collaboration between 19 partners around the world including prominent research institutions and scholarly organisations from Africa, Australasia, Europe, and North and South America. This work will form the core of CODATA’s contribution to the International Science Council (ISC) Action Plan Project 2.1, Making Data Work For Cross-Domain Grand Challenges.
WorldFAIR activities
Project launch and Kickoff Meeting, June 2022
The original news announcement on the launch of the WorldFAIR project (1 June 2022) is here: https://codata.org/worldfair-global-cooperation-on-fair-data-policy-and-practice-a-major-two-year-project-starts-today/.
Our project Kickoff Meeting was held on 9 June 2022. There is a short press release, describing the meeting, available here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6783687
SciDataCon, June 2022
WorldFAIR partners set out their planned activities at the sessions at SciDataCon/International Data Week in June 2022:
- WorldFAIR – Global cooperation on FAIR data policy and practice https://www.scidatacon.org/IDW-2022/sessions/439/ – General Introduction, 20 June, 2:30 – 4:00 UTC
- Unique identifiers to complement metadata for the identification and grouping of complex nanomaterials https://www.scidatacon.org/IDW-2022/sessions/444/ – Nanomaterials Case Study, 21 June, 7:00 – 8:30 UTC
- Mapping the Global Landscape of Geochemistry Initiatives and Databases https://www.scidatacon.org/IDW-2022/sessions/437/ – Geochemistry Case Study, 22 June, 7:00 – 8:30 UTC
- Challenges for Plant-Pollinator Data Standardization https://www.scidatacon.org/IDW-2022/sessions/418/ – Agricultural Biodiversity Case Study, 22 June, 7:00 – 8:30 UTC
- Envisioning a Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework https://www.scidatacon.org/IDW-2022/sessions/438/ – Current thinking about the CDIF, 23 June, 2:30 – 4:00 UTC
FAIR Convergence Symposium, October 2022
Find out about WorldFAIR case studies and what they discovered by using FAIR Implementation Profiles at the WorldFAIR workshop, ‘FIPs in WorldFAIR: What have we learnt?’, at the FAIR Convergence Symposium in Leiden, in October 2022.
Find out more
Visit the project website at https://worldfair-project.eu
All WorldFAIR project deliverables are in our Zenodo community: https://zenodo.org/communities/worldfair-project/
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Page last updated: 2022-11-17.