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Data are considered as "FAIR" when they comply to the rather general recommendations that all research objects have to fulfil and which were summarized under four major principles FindabilityFindability, AccessibilityAccessibility, Interoperability Interoperability and ReRe-Usability.
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The FAIR guiding principles for research date data were originally drafted in 2015 by the FORCE11 workgroup (http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biv095) and later published by Wilkinson et al. in 2016 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.18). In the meanwhile meantime they are widely accepted and were adopted by several research policies and funding agencies to provide a general guideline how to handle and publish research data (http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/ISU-170824).
They provide not concrete particular properties, formats or standards that scientific data has to meet, but rather a set of relatively quite general recommendations that all research objects has have to fulfil fulfill and which were summarized under four major principles Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Re-Usability.
Due to the daily increasing amount of high-voluminous and heterogenous research data the major goal of the FAIR data principles is to lower the barriers and efforts for humans as well as machines to efficiently discover and reuse research data. This is not only important for the research community who is interested in analyzing the data to get news discover new scientific findings, but also for funding agencies, who provide the budget for producing the data, and other interested stakeholders.
All datasets, which were are provided via the GFBio portal are aimed strive to comply with the FAIR principles, even if it is currently a bit difficult evaluate this. On . However, evaluation of the "FAIRness" of a data set is currently difficult. One promising solution are maybe the lately published FAIR maturity indicators (http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2018.118), which provide a suitable approach to measure the FAIRness of datasets and research infrastructures.
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