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Shamanu van Leeuwen edited this page Oct 20, 2017 · 20 revisions

What is FAIR

The FAIRifier is a tool to make messy data FAIR. FAIR stands for Findable, Accessible, Inter operable, Reusable. To summarize:

  • Findable means the data has clearly described metadata, which makes it possible to find the data with a search engine.
  • Accessible means that the accessibility of the data is described in the metadata.
  • Inter operable means it should be able to connect to other data, for example linked data technology.
  • Reusable means that the metadata contains specifications about who and what can reuse it.
  • For more information about FAIR click here.

The implementation of FAIR

The infrastructure consists of three core elements: the FAIR search engine, which indexes all of the data in the network; the FAIR Data Point(FDP), which contains the data (every institution should host one or more FDP's), and the FAIRifier, which is meant to convert any data for an inter operable resource. This can be put on an FDP from within the FAIRifier.

The FAIRifier

The FAIRifier is based on Openrefine with the RDF-plugin added. There is an extra option which enables the user to PUSH their FAIR data to an FDP(FAIR Data Point).

The FAIRifier is developed at The Dutch tech center for life sciences(DTL)(the Dutch Tech Center for life sciences).
DTL's mission is to establish an interconnected research infrastructure that enables cross-disciplinary life science research in national and international collaboration in a cost-effective manner.

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