In the WorldFAIR project, CODATA ( the Committee on Data of the International Science Council) and RDA (the Research Data Alliance), work with a set of 11 disciplinary and cross-disciplinary case studies to advance implementation of the FAIR principles and, in particular, to improve interoperability and reusability of digital research objects, including data. Particular attention is paid to the articulation of an interoperability framework for each case study and research domain.

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WorldFAIR First Policy Brief
In this policy brief the WorldFAIR project makes seven policy recommendations relevant to EOSC. Evidence and analysis is presented for each recommendation. The Policy Brief and recommendations draw on project deliverables and discussions held at workshops including project participants and wider stakeholders.
FAIR Implementation Profiles (FIPs) in WorldFAIR: What Have We Learnt?
This report gives an overview of the experience of the WorldFAIR project in using FAIR Implementation Profiles (FIPs). It describes the project, its objectives and its rich set of Case Studies; and it introduces FIPs as a methodology for listing the FAIR implementation decisions made by a given community of practice.
Formalisation of OneGeochemistry
WorldFAIR Geochemistry sets out to formalise the OneGeochemistry Initiative. With the exponential growth of data volumes and production, better coordination and collaboration is needed within the Earth and Planetary Science community producing geochemical data.
Cross-national social sciences survey FAIR implementation case studies
Overview of data harmonisation practices of cross-national social surveys through case studies of the European Social Survey and the Australian Social Survey International – European Social Survey. Comparison of the practices between the organisations responsible for the data management of ESS and AUSSI-ESS.
An assessment of the ocean data priority areas for development and implementation roadmap
An evaluation of FAIR Implementation Profiles and FAIR Enabling Resources compiled from WorldFAIR case studies. It synthesises insights obtained through a survey and identifies a pathway to implement sustainable cross-domain (meta)data flows to inform and support the current development of the CDIF.
Cultural Heritage Mapping Report: Practices and Policies supporting Cultural Heritage image sharing platforms
Outline of current practices guiding online digital image sharing by institutions charged with providing care and access to cultural memory, in order to identify how these practices may be adapted to promote and support the FAIR principles for data sharing.
Cultural Heritage image sharing recommendations report
This report builds on our understanding of what it means to support FAIR in the sharing of image data derived from GLAM collections. This report looks at previous efforts by the sector towards FAIR alignment and presents 5 recommendations designed to be implemented and tested at the DRI that are also broadly applicable to the work of the GLAMs.
Population Health Data Implementation Guide
This implementation guide describes the way all aspects of the data are made available for use, both within and from outside the INSPIRE Network community, using standard metadata to describe the data. This is an exploration of how generic standards can be used to express the agreed community metadata set.
Digital recommendations for Chemistry FAIR data policy and practice
This report reviews some of the critical and persistent issues around documentation of chemical information. It also considers documentation requirements to achieve FAIR sharing of chemistry data in ways that are Reliable, Interpretable, Processable, and Exchangeable (RIPE), and with minimal loss of quality.
Nanomaterials domain-specific FAIRification mapping
This deliverable presents the initial FAIR implantation Profile (FIP) which describes the current state of the field (an ‘As-Is’ FIP) and discusses the domain-specific challenges relating to nanomaterials and its FAIR landscape. It then lays out the developments needed to reach the ‘To-Be’ FIP, as the optimal approach to make nanomaterials and nanosafety data FAIR, based on current best practice.
Urban Health Data – Guidelines and Recommendations
This report assessed the implementation of FAIR principles within the Urban Health field through two case studies. Then it focuses on the data collection and harmonisation process of health survey data. This allowed the elaboration of consensus on terminologies and procedures that facilitates the use of survey health data in cities for research and action.
Data standard for sharing ecological and environmental monitoring data documented for community review
This report describes the FAIR data model being developed in WorldFAIR with GBIF leading a community collaboration. GBIF’s engagement with the biodiversity community has led to a new draft core Unified Model, developed in collaboration with the Biodiversity Information Standards Group (TDWG) and through community consultation.
Disaster Risk Reduction Case study report
This report describes the types of data used for disaster risk reduction (DRR) and provides two country case studies, for Fiji and Sudan, with an in-depth look at the DRR datasets and associated metadata used by each country. These datasets were assessed against 15 FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data metrics to identify which elements of FAIR were met.
Geochemistry Scientific Content Component
This Milestone describes progress towards developing a methodology designed to assist in defining the individual FERs required to fully describe the minimum scientific and technical variables used to describe any geochemical analysis. It discusses progress towards minimum common variables of samples and how to make best practices for geochemical methods available online. It specifies a set of vocabularies published to describe methodologies.

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