The FAIR Principles: First Generation Implementation Choices and Challenges

摘要: “FAIR enough”?... A question asked on a daily basis in the rapidly evolving field of open science and the underpinning data stewardship profession. After the publication of the FAIR principles in 2016, they have sparked theoretical debates, but some communities have already begun to implement FAIR-guided data and services. No-one really argues against the idea that data, as well as the accompanying workflows and services should be findable, accessible under well-defined conditions, interoperable without data munging, and thus optimally reusable. Being FAIR is not a goal in itself; FAIR Data and Services are needed to enable data intensive research and innovation and (thus) have to be “AI-ready” (= future proof for machines to optimally assist us). However, the fact that science and innovation becomes increasingly “machine-assisted” and hence the central role of machines, is still overlooked in some cases when people claim to implement FAIR