The FAIR Guiding Principles for Scientific Data Management and Stewardship

Metadata

• Author: Nature
• Full Title: The FAIR Guiding Principles for Scientific Data Management and Stewardship
• Category: articles
• Document Tags: #oedp
• URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201618

Highlights

• Beyond proper collection, annotation, and archival, data stewardship includes the notion of ‘long-term care’ of valuable digital assets, with the goal that they should be discovered and re-used for downstream investigations, either alone, or in combination with newly generated data. (View Highlight)
• Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability (View Highlight)
• Importantly, it is our intent that the principles apply not only to ‘data’ in the conventional sense, but also to the algorithms, tools, and workflows that led to that data. All scholarly digital research objects2—from data to analytical pipelines—benefit from application of these principles, since all components of the research process must be available to ensure transparency, reproducibility, and reusability. (View Highlight)
• To be Findable:
  F1. (meta)data are assigned a globally unique and persistent identifier
  F2. data are described with rich metadata (defined by R1 below)
  F3. metadata clearly and explicitly include the identifier of the data it describes
  F4. (meta)data are registered or indexed in a searchable resource (View Highlight)
• To be Accessible:
  A1. (meta)data are retrievable by their identifier using a standardized communications protocol
  A1.1 the protocol is open, free, and universally implementable
  A1.2 the protocol allows for an authentication and authorization procedure, where necessary
  A2. metadata are accessible, even when the data are no longer available (View Highlight)
• To be Interoperable:
  I1. (meta)data use a formal, accessible, shared, and broadly applicable language for knowledge representation.
  I2. (meta)data use vocabularies that follow FAIR principles
  I3. (meta)data include qualified references to other (meta)data (View Highlight)
• To be Reusable:
  R1. meta(data) are richly described with a plurality of accurate and relevant attributes
  R1.1. (meta)data are released with a clear and accessible data usage license
  R1.2. (meta)data are associated with detailed provenance
  R1.3. (meta)data meet domain-relevant community standards (View Highlight)