The IUPAC WorldFAIR Chemistry project is pleased to invite you to attend the fourth webinar of our series titled “What is a Chemical? Innovation in Chemical descriptions”. We are focusing on innovations and creative approaches to chemical description, particularly those that address chemicals in complex systems: such as reactions, multiple-component systems/mixtures, complexes, composites, formulations, and using these in different computational settings, representation services, tools, and mechanisms.
The webinar series highlights the current status of working with descriptions of chemical substances, development of digital tools to transform chemical data notation into digital entities, and ways to implement FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data principles across the chemical enterprise.
This webinar lasts for 90 min, and we have invited 5 guest speakers to present their perspectives on the use of chemical substance notation” in their field within a 5 min flash presentation for each speaker. This will be followed by a panel discussion.
FAIR Convergence Symposium 2022: session led by Simon Hodson and Arofan Gregory, CODATA. 25 Oct 2022, Leiden.
Part One: the experience of the Case Studies
Introduction to WorldFAIR and FIPs; Simon Hodson, CODATA (10 mins)
Presentations from some Case Studies (7.5 minutes each): we have invited 6 of the 11 WorldFAIR Case Studies to present their experiences of developing FIPs. The other 5 case studies are invited to participate, and to contribute to the discussion.
Chemistry, IUPAC: Leah McEwan (remote), Ian Bruno and Stuart Chalk (onsite) Nanomaterials: Iseult Lynch and Thomas Exner (onsite) Social Surveys: Steve McEachern and Hilde Orten (remote) Agricultural Biodiversity: Maarten Trekels (onsite) and Debora Drucker (remote) Disaster Risk Reduction: Bapon Fakhruddin and Jill Bolland (remote) Cultural Heritage: Beth Knazook (onsite)
Each Case study is asked to describe their experience and, in particular, to respond to the following questions:
What have you learnt from the process? Has using FIPs helped you describe practices around FAIR in your case studies? Has it helped identify any gaps or areas which would benefit from further attention? Has the process identified ways in which the FIPs methodology and the tools around it can be improved? What have you learnt about the FAIRness of your community or domain? Have you identified any next steps in response to what you have learnt?
The presentations will be followed by general discussion, of about 50 minutes, in which all Case Studies will be invited to share their experiences, and to which all participants will be invited to contribute.
The discussion will take place either side of a 30-minute break in which refreshments will be available for onsite participants.
Part Two: discussion of experience, findings and next steps.
Summary of what we have learnt and implications for the Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework (CDIF): Arofan Gregory, CODATA (15 mins), followed by c.45 minutes discussion.
This presentation and the subsequent discussion responds to the following questions:
How have the outcomes of the FIPs assisted the project in the development of a Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework and recommendations for more domain-sensitive FAIR assessment? What commonalities have we identified? Has the process helped our identification of components of CDIF and candidate standards? Have we identified any specific needs in domains that should be part of domain sensitive FAIR assessment? What are the key findings about FIPs as a methodology? What improvements would we recommend?
In 2023 the Research Data Alliance is celebrating its 10th Anniversary. The RDA is commemorating this important milestone with the community by organising a series of international and regional events and activities dedicated to a specific theme related to research data management of relevance to the RDA community.
January
10th anniversary launch
February
FAIR data, software and hardware
March
A Decade of Data
April
Health and medical data
May
Metadata and technical infrastructure
June
Agriculture and environmental data
July
Research data policy
August
Disciplinary data
September
Sustainable development and responsible research
October
A festival of data
November
Research data management support and education
December
Anniversary highlights
The WorldFAIR project has proposed two events as part of the above schedule:
WorldFAIR: Image sharing systems and practices in Cultural Heritage. February 2023. Work Package 13 presents their landscaping report identifying how Cultural Heritage institutions engage with FAIR (examining formats and image delivery technologies). This workshop will aim to have a community discussion around this report. More information will follow.
WorldFAIR Case Study on Plant-pollinator Interactions Data. June 2023. A webinar organisd by Work Package 10 providing an overview of what we have produced at the discovery phase: FAIR assessments, good practices, tools and examples to create, manage and share data related to plant-pollinator interactions.
The overarching goal of WorldFAIR WP3 is to align chemistry data standards with the FAIR data principles through:
development of guidelines, tools and validation services that enable scientists to share and store data in a FAIR manner
addressing gaps in standards that currently restrain chemistry research in both academic and industrial areas, in particular taking advantage of developments in artificial intelligence and machine learning
adoption of standards and best practices by critical stakeholders to significantly increase the amount of chemical data available for all scientific disciplines.
The WP has organised a series of talks and webinars since September 2022 – the recordings are now available below and on Youtube.
The third webinar recording will become available soon – stay tuned!
Workshop organised by the WorldFAIR project as a co-located event to RDA P20 in Gothenburg and Online.
The goal of this event is to describe the reasoning behind the development of the Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework (CDIF), to give a detailed picture of how it is currently envisioned and what activities, functions, and standards it will encompass, and to provide a current status of the work.
The EC-funded WorldFAIR project is coordinated by CODATA, with RDA as a major partner, and will produce an initial draft of the CDIF recommendations. Building on WorldFAIR, and other expert communities, a Working Group and Advisory Group have been established to oversee the development of CDIF. It is expected that CDIF will persist beyond the scope of the initial WorldFAIR Project, and include not only the eleven domain case studies, but also other interested communities. Efforts will be made to align with major global initiatives and infrastructures addressing data interoperability (such as EOSC, ARDC, UNECE Modern Statistics).
The first part of the workshop will focus on the functional drivers and requirements for defining a set of activities to support the FAIR principles, and to show the organisational and system dynamics which make CDIF necessary. The development process and questions around the organisation of the work will also be described. The draft of CDIF to be presented identifies activities and information implicit in adherence to and support for the FAIR principles. CDIF is built on top of the generic foundation provided by the FAIR Digital Object Framework, to address interoperability at the level of applications rather than exchange protocols. CDIF reflects the granular needs for domain metadata being expressed in broadly understood terms where possible, supplemented by domain-specific semantics where absolutely required.
The second part of the workshop will show how these research and data requirements can be translated into system functions and services, and how these can be supported through the use of existing standards and specifications for the needed information. These will include specifications such as DCAT, Schema.org, DDI-CDI, SKOS/XKOS, SSSOM, OGC Observations & Measurements/I-PROV, etc. Specific features of the standards and how they can be used in combination will be addressed, although not at a technical level. Feedback from participants will be elicited, and their input collected to help us inform the ongoing development work.
The workshop will be interactive and built around structured discussion of the draft CDIF.
Who is the event for?
Implementers and practitioners at all levels who are concerned with FAIR, especially in cross-domain or cross-infrastructure scenarios. The workshop is intended for those who wish a more detailed understanding of CDIF, and who may wish to implement or even become involved in its development in future.
Part One: FAIR Functional Drivers and Requirements
13:00-13:30 UTC: Presentation of FAIR Activities and Information Objects
13:30-14:30 UTC: Structured review of the relevant sections of the CDIF Draft
14:30-15:00 UTC: Break
Part Two: System Functions and Supporting Standards
15:00-15:30 UTC: Presentation of functional areas and candidate standards
15:30-16:30 UTC: Structured review of the relevant sections of the CDIF Draft
Report on the FAIR Implementation Profiles completed by project Case Studies in 2022. Project Deliverable D2.1 for EC WIDERA-funded project “WorldFAIR: Global cooperation on FAIR data policy and practice”.This report gives a brief overview of the experience of the WorldFAIR project in using FAIR Implementation Profiles (FIPs). It describes the WorldFAIR 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. Subsequently, the report gives an overview of the initial feedback and findings from the Case Studies, and considers a number of issues and points of discussion that emerged from this exercise. Finally, and most importantly, we describe how we think the experience of using FIPs will assist each Case Study in its work to implement FAIR, and will assist the project as a whole in the development of two key outputs: the Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework (CDIF), and domain-sensitive recommendations for FAIR assessment.
We hope this report will be of interest to data experts who want to find out more about the WorldFAIR project, its remarkable and diverse array of Case Studies, and about FIPs. It is important to stress that this report does not set out to give a comprehensive appraisal of the FIPs approach and could not do so. All the WorldFAIR Case Studies have developed an initial FIP, but the process of reflection on practice will continue throughout the project. Each Case Study will complete at least one further FIP, and in some cases more than one, towards the end of the project and this will enrich our understanding of the utility of the approach. At that stage, we intend to be able to incorporate some robust prospective and aspirational considerations, and we need to consider how best to represent this in the FIPs.As noted above, the final section of this report looks forward to the development of the Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework (CDIF), and domain-sensitive recommendations for FAIR assessment. On both these counts, we consider that the FIPs approach has helped considerably:
For the CDIF, through helping refine our initial functional analysis of the requirements for cross-domain FAIR, and—as predicted—helping identify some candidate cross-domain standards.
For the FAIR assessment recommendations, through demonstrating that the FIPs can provide an empirical basis for such recommendations, reflecting both the current practice, and the aspirations of a given community or research domain.
Report on the formalisation of the OneGeochemistry CODATA Working Group.
Project Deliverable D5.1 for EC WIDERA-funded project “WorldFAIR: Global cooperation on FAIR data policy and practice”.
The WorldFAIR Geochemistry Work Package Deliverable 5.1 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. The mission of OneGeochemistry is to address this need and in order to do so effectively the OneGeochemistry Interim Board has applied to become the OneGeochemistry CODATA Working Group. This application has been approved by the CODATA Executive Committee. The OneGeochemistry CODATA Working Group will be led by a chair and co-chair and will form expert advisory groups where required. Becoming a CODATA Working Group gives the OneGeochemistry Initiative credibility and authority to successfully pursue a long-term governance structure and accomplish the other WorldFAIR deliverables of WP05 (Geochemistry).
Accomplishing an outline of the methodology used to populate and update FAIR Implementation Profiles and to promulgate knowledge of them, as well as creating a set of guidelines for laboratories and repositories on how to use FAIR Implementation Profiles and common variables to QA/QC data, will enable FAIRer (Wilkinson et al., 2016) geochemical data, which will in turn make interdisciplinary use easier.
Geochemical data has direct application to six of the seventeen UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG#6 (Clean Water and Sanitation); SDG#7 (Affordable and Clean Energy); SDG#8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth); SDG#9 (Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure); SDG#13 (Climate Action); SDG#15 (Life on Land) and FAIR geochemical data will accelerate the generation of new geoscientific knowledge and discoveries. Within the greater framework of the WorldFAIR project, this deliverable has come together in collaboration with CODATA (WP01 and WP02) and the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC, WP03).
The WorldFAIR Oceans Science Case Study is asking for your help!
The Case Study will gather guidance from partners across the project (and any collaborators or colleagues they invite) on how its central use case – the Ocean InfoHub – can best interoperate with digital assets and key stakeholders in their domains.
Please consider completing this short survey on expanding Ocean Interoperability to your domain: https://forms.gle/CMikgdmAY5YCci6P9 (The survey will close in mid-January.)
The results will be synthesised into a publicly available Roadmap (Deliverable 11.1) for enhancing cross-domain interoperability and pre-aligning with CODATA’s emerging cross-domain interoperability framework (CDIF).
The survey aims to understand your field’s familiarity with the FAIR principles and, for example, with formatting standards and metadata. Above all, it aims to understand how outsiders can engage with metadata and data in your domain. It will be important to reflect on and communicate any existing or potential areas of contact between your domain and Oceans Science.
Please forward this survey to anyone you think would have the technical awareness to complete the survey and help us improve our understanding of existing and potential cross-domain interoperability with oceans science.
On behalf of Pier Luigi Buttigieg, AWI, Ocean InfoHub and WorldFAIR Oceans Science Case Study
In the WorldFAIR project, CODATA (the Committee on Data of the International Science Council), with the RDA (Research Data Alliance) Association as a major partner, is working with a set of eleven 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.
To that end, the WorldFAIR project created a range of FAIR Implementation Profiles (FIPs) between July and October 2022 to better understand current FAIR data-related practices. The report, ‘FAIR Implementation Profiles (FIPs) in WorldFAIR: What Have We Learnt?’, is published this week and available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7378109.
The report describes the WorldFAIR 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. Subsequently, the report gives an overview of the initial feedback and findings from the Case Studies, and considers a number of issues and points of discussion that emerged from this exercise. Finally, and most importantly, we describe how we think the experience of using FIPs will assist each Case Study in its work to implement FAIR, and will assist the project as a whole in the development of two key outputs: the Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework (CDIF), and domain-sensitive recommendations for FAIR assessment.
We hope this report will be of interest to data experts who want to find out more about the WorldFAIR project, its remarkable and diverse array of Case Studies, and about FIPs. It is important to stress that this report does not set out to give a comprehensive appraisal of the FIPs approach and could not do so. All the WorldFAIR Case Studies have developed an initial FIP, but the process of reflection on practice will continue throughout the project. Each Case Study will complete at least one further FIP, and in some cases more than one, towards the end of the project and this will enrich our understanding of the utility of the approach. At that stage, we intend to be able to incorporate some robust prospective and aspirational considerations, and we need to consider how best to represent this in the FIPs.
The final section of this report looks forward to the development of the Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework (CDIF), and domain-sensitive recommendations for FAIR assessment. On both these counts, we consider that the FIPs approach has helped considerably:
For the CDIF, through helping refine our initial functional analysis of the requirements for cross-domain FAIR, and—as predicted—helping identify some candidate cross-domain standards.
For the FAIR assessment recommendations, through demonstrating that the FIPs can provide an empirical basis for such recommendations, reflecting both the current practice, and the aspirations of a given community or research domain.
We welcome feedback from readers and plan to hold a discussion event on report findings and reactions in February 2023.
‘FAIR Implementation Profiles (FIPs) in WorldFAIR: What Have We Learnt?’ is Project Deliverable D2.1 for the EC WIDERA-funded project “WorldFAIR: Global cooperation on FAIR data policy and practice”. WorldFAIR is funded by the EC HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01-41 Coordination and Support Action under Grant Agreement No. 101058393.
‘Global cooperation on FAIR data policy and practice’ (WorldFAIR) has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe project call HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01-01, grant agreement 101058393. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union. Privacy Policy
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