DWLresearch

If you are a researcher in the biological sciences, chemistry, digital humanities and sociology the UK Data Service and Jisc would like to invite you to participate in one of several focus groups exploring the use of FAIR data principles within UK academic research. Two free to attend workshops will be held in September, one in London and the other in Newcastle . What is meant by the FAIR Data Principles? FAIR refers to a set of guiding principles developed by a group of international stakeholders which proposes that scholarly outputs should be: Findable : easy to find for both humans and computers, with metadata that facilitate searching for specific datasets Accessible : stored for long term so that they can easily be accessed and/or downloaded with well-defined license and access conditions (open access when possible), whether at the level of metadata, or at the level of the actual data Interoperable : ready to be combined with other datasets by humans or computers Reu...