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Published on Thursday, 11 July 2024 16:35

How could FAIRness badges for providers, developers and users of science gateways look like? 

July 11, 2024

Presenter: Sandra Gesing | SGX3

Abstract: Science gateways are predestined to support many aspects of FAIR because of their characteristics to provide a workspace for collaboration, sharing data and simulations and/or workflows. The RDA FAIR for VRE Working Group has worked on a checklist to measure FAIRness in science gateways. This list considers how to address the complexity in regard to which target group is addressed – developers or users – and the granularity such as science gateways as software frameworks, services, APIs, workflows, data and simulations. We assume that not only science gateways as software frameworks are FAIR but that they also are FAIR-enabling for the digital objects they contain. The webinar will go into detail for suggestions how to recognize and incentivize that providers, developers and users are actively working towards FAIRness of digital objects. One idea is to address this via badges. It probably makes sense to split the badges for the four principles Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. There are many open questions beyond this granularity such as how to create badges, who gives such badges, what are the rules for the duration of badges? Watch the presentation below.