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Best practices and guidelines to help you make your data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable)
The Research Data Management toolkit for Life Sciences
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Best practices and guidelines to help you make your data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable)
The Research Data Management toolkit for Life Sciences
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Carole Goble
Gil Poiares-Oliveira
Diana Pilvar
Bert Droesbeke
Flora D’Anna
Frederik Coppens
Ishwar Chandramouliswaran
Federico Bianchini
Laura Portell Silva
Marina Popleteeva
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Nazeefa Fatima
Ulrike Wittig
Munazah Andrabi
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A sustainable open, ongoing community effort
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End-to-end FAIR Data takes a village*
Policy and infrastructure are not enough.
We need to offer assistance before we make assessments
Supporting the data needs of Europe’s estimated
500,000
life scientists
Support research to know, utilise, enable and demand FAIR RDM services.
Pool the expertise of the community for the community.
Build capacity and skills for researchers, stewards and data providers.
*Borgman, C. L., & Bourne, P. (2022). Why It Takes a Village to Manage and Share Data. Harvard Data Science Review, 4(3). https://doi.org/10.1162/99608f92.42eec111
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RDMkit – A toolkit that scales and enables
Supporting the data needs of Europe’s estimated
500,000
life scientists
Support research to know, utilise, enable and demand FAIR RDM services.
Pool the expertise of the community for the community.
Build capacity and skills for researchers, stewards and data providers.
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Data management systems work to be FAIR for users by ELIXIR Nodes
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1. Revisiting the data life cycle
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2. Responsibilities, resources and tools relevant to your role
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3. Guidelines for common data management problems in the life sciences
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4. Guidelines for particular life science domains
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4. Guidelines for particular life science domains
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A user-oriented guide to the FAIR RDM practices in life sciences
To support the data needs of Europe’s estimated 500,000 life scientists
Support research to know, utilise, RDM services
Pool the expertise of the community for the community.
Build capacity and skills in every research institute
Increase self-sufficiency
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