Nanomaterials domain-specific FAIRification mapping (Deliverable 4.1)

Lynch, Iseult; Afantitis, Antreas; Exner, Thomas; Papadiamantis, Anastasios

WP04 of WorldFAIR aims to increase the FAIRness (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reusability) of nanomaterials datasets and computational models. The initial focus is on toxicity and safety-related datasets as this is where the bulk of the effort has been to date.  We note that nanomaterials are a very broad category of materials, combining chemicals and materials features, and overlapping strongly with the emerging domain of advanced materials. Nanosafety is a very broad domain, covering exposure, toxicity and risk assessment and requires extensive characterisation of the pristine (as-produced) nanomaterials and their physical, chemical, biological and macromolecular transformations within the various environments in which they are present. Thus, the positioning of nanomaterials between Chemistry (WP03) and Geochemistry (WP05) is intentional, as there are strong overlaps of concepts and approaches with both, and solutions applicable to one of these domains are likely to be applicable to others also, leading to the potential for mutual learning and accelerated implementation of the FAIR concepts across these domains.  

This specific deliverable lays out the domain and its communities, and the various projects and contributors active in the FAIR-nanomaterials and nanosafety domain. It then presents our 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. The deliverable 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 across the FAIR community.  We note that the As-Is FIP will be updated at the end of the WorldFAIR project, to capture: the rapid development in the field; our own efforts to enhance the number of domain-specific FAIR-enabling Resources (FERs) and FAIR-supporting resources (FSRs); FIPs underway in the aforementioned WorldFAIR Chemistry (WP03) and Geochemistry (WP05) case studies, as well as the efforts underway in the Partnership for Assessment of the Risks of Chemicals (PARC), which has a very strong FAIR data focus.  Subsequent activities in WP04 will implement a case study to foster development and piloting of interoperability standards, and guidelines for increasing FAIRness in the interlinked scientific disciplines of chemical toxicity, nanomaterials toxicity and materials modelling.

The FAIR mapping represents a critical step towards identifying both the domain-specific features and the general features needed to maximise nanosafety data and model FAIRness, highlighting areas for further development and standardisation especially in the domain-specific aspects such as metadata standards and ontologies. Existing ontologies have major gaps in their semantic coverage, and project-specific terminology is not fully integrated/accessible via ontology look-up services. Building on the mapping and ‘As-Is’ FIP for nanosafety, WP04 will develop an index (registry) and workflows for FAIRification of nanoinformatics tools and models (D4.2), and recommendations for nanomaterials-specific human and machine-readable provenance and persistence policies (D4.3).       

This nanomaterials FIP, and its subsequent iteration, form a critical part of the overarching WorldFAIR cross-domain mapping and indeed have already been integrated into D2.1 and D11.1.

The report is available on Zenodo.

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WorldFAIR Project webinar series announced

The WorldFAIR Project is launching a webinar series aiming to promote and discuss all published and upcoming deliverables and project outputs.

The webinars will run from May 2023 to May 2024. They are free to attend.

Please note all webinars will be recorded and uploaded on the WorldFAIR YouTube channel and website.

The following webinars are currently confirmed – more dates will be added soon, so stay tuned!

TopicDate/timeDescriptionSpeakersRegistrationWebinar recording
WorldFAIR Project: Introduction to the WorldFAIR webinar series. 26 May, 13:00 – 14:00 UTCThis webinar ran by WP14 will present the WorldFAIR project and give an overview of the work carried out by the WPs in the context of EOSC and the international data landscape.Ari Asmi (RDA AISBL Director), Hilary Hanahoe (RDA Secretary General), Javier López Albacete (Policy Officer, EC)Register hereTBC
WorldFAIR Output Webinar Series: Overview of the projects first round of disciplinary reports: Updates from the Social Surveys and Cultural Heritage.14 June 2023,
08:00 – 09:00 UTC
This webinar will present the following deliverables completed by WP6 and WP13 respectively:

– Cross-national Social Sciences survey FAIR implementation case studies (6.1)
– Cultural Heritage Mapping Report (13.1)
Steven McEachern (WP6), Beth Knazook (WP13)Register hereTBC
WorldFAIR Output Webinar Series: WorldFAIR FAIR Implementation Profiles (FIPs), the Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework (CDIF) – and more. (v1)28 June 2023,
13:00 – 14:00 UTC
WP2 will provide an update on D2.1 and the FAIR Implementation Profiles as well as about the engagement with the Case Studies on their data, identification of ‘interoperability interfaces’ and the implications for the Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework (CDIF).  Simon Hodson, Arofan Gregory (WP1, WP2)Register hereTBC
WorldFAIR Output Webinar Series: Overview of the projects first round of disciplinary reports: Updates from Chemistry and Nanomaterials. 13 September 2023, 14:00 – 15:00 UTCThis webinar will present the following deliverables completed by WP3 and WP4 respectively:

– Digital recommendations for Chemistry FAIR data policy and practice (3.1)
– Nanomaterials domain-specific FAIRification mapping (4.1)
Leah Rae McEwen, Fatima Mustafa, Ian Bruno, Stuart Chalk (WP3); Iseult Lynch (WP4), more speakers TBCRegister hereTBC
WorldFAIR Output Webinar Series: Overview of the projects first round of disciplinary reports: Updates from Biodiversity and Agriculture 20 September 2023, 13:00 – 14:00 UTCThis webinar will present the following deliverables completed by WP9 and WP10 respectively:

– Data standard for sharing ecological and environmental monitoring data documented
for community review (9.1)
– Agriculture-related pollinator data standards use cases report (10.1)
Joe Miller (WP9); Debora Pignatari Drucker, Maarten Trekels, Quentin Groom (WP10)Register hereTBC
WorldFAIR Output Webinar Series: Overview of the projects first round of disciplinary reports: Updates from Population Health and Urban HealthOctober 2023, date TBCThis webinar will present the following deliverables completed by WP7 and WP8 respectively:

Population Health Data Implementation Guide (7.1)
Urban Health Data – Guidelines and Recommendations (8.1)
Jim Todd (WP7); Ana Ortigoza (WP8)TBCTBC
WorldFAIR Output Webinar Series: Overview of the projects first round of disciplinary reports: Disaster Risk Reduction Updates15 November 2023, 20:00 – 21:00 UTCThis webinar will present the following deliverables completed by WP12:
– Disaster Risk Reduction Case study report (12.1)
– Disaster Risk Reduction Domain-specific FAIR vocabularies (12.2)
Jill Bolland, Bapon Fakhruddin T+T (WP12)Register hereTBC
WorldFAIR Output Webinar Series: Overview of the projects first round of disciplinary reports: Cultural Heritage and Social Surveys updates v2This webinar will present the following deliverables completed by WP13 and WP6 respectively: Cultural Heritage Recommendations (13.2) Cross-national Social Sciences survey best practice guidelines (6.2)Steven McEachern (WP6), Beth Knazook (WP13)TBCTBC

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NEXT UP IN THE PARC FAIR DATA AND TOOLS WEBINAR SERIES…

Coming Up: 20 April, Example FIPs – WorldFAIR project: Chemistry & Nanomaterials, Leah McEwan, Cornell University / Thomas Exner, SevenPastNine

The European Partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals (PARC) is an EU-wide research and innovation partnership programme

It support EU and national chemical risk assessment and risk management bodies with new data, knowledge, methods, networks and skills to address current, emerging and novel chemical safety challenges.

As part of its openness and FAIRness mission, a series of webinars is organised open to all with an interest in FAIR data and FAIR tools / models / software. Within the scope of PARC. it is pulling in speakers from across the spectrum including from INQUIRE, WorldFAIR, MACRAME, NanoSolveIT and more.

Webinars are held every other Thursday 4-5 CET – around 45 minutes presentation + 15 minutes discussion.

Zoom link
Meeting ID: 820 3010 6755
Passcode:438719

26 Jan 2023FAIR AwarenessErik Schultes, GO FAIR Foundationslides available 
09 Feb 2023Experience as a data shepherd in NanoCommons – bridging the knowledge gap and changing cultures around data managementAnastasios Papadiamantis, University of Birminghamslides/recording TBR
r23 Feb 2023FAIR Implementation Profiles – Introduction & their use in PARCBarbara Magagna, GO FAIR Foundationslides/recording TBR
09 Mar 2023Visualisation of complex experimental workflowsThomas Exner, SevenPastNineslides/recording TBR
23 Mar 2023Making (nano)toxicity data FAIR – experiences from Gov4Nano & Data Re-use examplesPenny Nymark, Karolinska Universityslides/recording TBR
06 Apr 2023Analysis of FAIRness of Online DMP ToolsIseult Lynch, University of Birminghamslides/recording TBR
20 Apr 2023Example FIPs – WorldFAIR project: Chemistry & NanomaterialsLeah McEwan, Cornell University / Thomas Exner, SevenPastNineslides/recording TBR

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webinar series organised by the European Partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals (PARC)

As part of its openness and FAIRness mission, PARC orgineses a series of webinars open to all with an interest in FAIR data and FAIR tools / models / software. Speakers are from across the spectrum including from INQUIRE, WorldFAIR, MACRAME, NanoSolveIT and more.

Webinars are held every other Thursday 4-5 CET – around 45 minutes presentation + 15 minutes discussion.

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PARC FAIR DATA AND TOOLS WEBINAR SERIES

The European Partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals (PARC) is an EU-wide research and innovation partnership programme

It support EU and national chemical risk assessment and risk management bodies with new data, knowledge, methods, networks and skills to address current, emerging and novel chemical safety challenges.

As part of its openness and FAIRness mission, a series of webinars is organised open to all with an interest in FAIR data and FAIR tools / models / software. Within the scope of PARC. it is pulling in speakers from across the spectrum including from INQUIRE, WorldFAIR, MACRAME, NanoSolveIT and more.

Webinars are held every other Thursday 4-5 CET – around 45 minutes presentation + 15 minutes discussion.

Zoom link
Meeting ID: 820 3010 6755
Passcode:438719

26 Jan 2023FAIR AwarenessErik Schultes, GO FAIR Foundationslides available 
09 Feb 2023Experience as a data shepherd in NanoCommons – bridging the knowledge gap and changing cultures around data managementAnastasios Papadiamantis, University of Birminghamslides/recording TBR
r23 Feb 2023FAIR Implementation Profiles – Introduction & their use in PARCBarbara Magagna, GO FAIR Foundationslides/recording TBR
09 Mar 2023Visualisation of complex experimental workflowsThomas Exner, SevenPastNineslides/recording TBR
23 Mar 2023Making (nano)toxicity data FAIR – experiences from Gov4Nano & Data Re-use examplesPenny Nymark, Karolinska Universityslides/recording TBR
06 Apr 2023Analysis of FAIRness of Online DMP ToolsIseult Lynch, University of Birminghamslides/recording TBR
20 Apr 2023Example FIPs – WorldFAIR project: Chemistry & NanomaterialsLeah McEwan, Cornell University / Thomas Exner, SevenPastNineslides/recording TBR

WorldFAIR: Global cooperation on FAIR data policy and practice – workshops introduce wide range of research domains to FAIR Implementation Profiles

The WorldFAIR project held a series of successful workshops between July and October 2022 to introduce and complete FAIR Implementation Profiles (FIPs) with eleven case study work packages.  This process culminated in a plenary meeting of the WorldFAIR case studies, “FIPs in WorldFAIR: What have we learnt?” which took place as part of the FAIR Convergence Symposium in Leiden on 25 October 2022.
 
The WorldFAIR project is a major global collaboration between partners from thirteen countries across Africa, Australasia, Europe, and North and South America.  WorldFAIR advances implementation of the FAIR data principles, in particular those for Interoperability, by developing a cross-domain interoperability framework and recommendations for FAIR assessment in a set of eleven disciplines or cross-disciplinary research areas.
 
The WorldFAIR case studies have been carefully chosen to provide maximum impact. The objective of each case study is to develop an interoperability framework for their discipline or interdisciplinary research area. They are clustered in connected groups in order to maximise scope while retaining a critical mass of activity and allowing learning and cross-fertilisation of ideas. Collected from CODATA and RDA activities and partnerships, the case studies include leading organisations in a range of research areas, supporting the creation of outputs with global impact.
 
The FIPs approach consists of a set of questions about practice in relation to each of the FAIR principles.  It is supported by an online tool, the FIPs Wizard. One of the potential benefits of this approach is the creation, as ‘nanopublications’ of a set of FIPs and FAIR Enabling Resources, coded in RDF, which can be read by machines, visualised, and analysed. With use, the creation of more FIPs and FERs will furnish a resource which can potentially give great insights into FAIR practices.
 
At our plenary workshop during the FAIR Convergence Symposium, six of the case studies presented and reflected on the process of constructing their FIP, specifically what they learned from the process; whether using FIPs helped describe practices around FAIR; whether the FIP helped identify any gaps or areas which would benefit from further attention; ways in which the FIPs methodology and the tools around it can be improved; and the identification of next steps.  Arofan Gregory (CODATA) then reflected on the implications of these observations for our work on the Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework, a major output of WorldFAIR.

We are grateful to Leah McEwan, Ian Bruno and Stuart Chalk (Chemistry); Iseult Lynch and Thomas Exner (Nanomaterials); Steve McEachern and Hilde Orten (Social Surveys); Maarten Trekels and Debora Drucker (Agricultural Biodiversity); Bapon Fakhruddin and Jill Bolland (Disaster Risk Reduction) and Beth Knazook (Cultural Heritage) for their insights.
 
WorldFAIR forms the core of CODATA’s contribution to the International Science Council (ISC) Action Plan Project 2.1, Making Data Work For Cross-Domain Grand Challenges.  WorldFAIR runs for 24 months from 1 June 2022 and is funded by the European Commission through its Horizon Europe Framework Programme, project call HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01-01, grant agreement 101058393. Project website: https://worldfair-project.eu.  

‘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. 
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