Fairsharing is a web-based portal that curates and monitors the development of data and metadata standards across various disciplines, evolving from biosharing.org. It provides resources on data policies, content standards, and terminologies, and assists researchers in identifying widely endorsed standards for their specific data needs. Fairsharing collaborates with publishers and funders to enhance data policies and shares data with other resources, supporting an active community focused on research data management.

1. Rafael C Jimenez
on behalf of
Peter McQuilton, Susanna-Assunta Sansone
and the FAIRsharing team

2. A web-based, curated, and searchable portal that monitors the
development and evolution of data and metadata standards,
across all disciplines, inter-related to databases/repositories and
data policies
FAIRsharing has grown organically from BioSharing.org, which covered standards,
databases and policies in the life, environmental and biomedical sciences. All data is
manually curated and reviewed by FAIRsharing curators and the maintainers of the
resources themselves
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4. Data policies Databases
Content standards
Formats Terminologies Guidelines
Models/Formats = Conceptual
model, conceptual schema,
exchange formats
Terminologies = Controlled
vocabularies, taxonomies,
thesauri, ontologies etc.
Guidelines = Minimum information
reporting requirements, checklists
Mapping a complex and evolving
landscape

5. Content standards
Data policies Databases
Formats Terminologies Guidelines
By grass-roots
groups, e.g.:
By standard
organizations, e.g.:
Mapping a complex and evolving
landscape

6. My funder’s data policy recommends the use of established
standards, but which are widely endorsed and applicable to
my crop data?
We need a standard for sharing
social science data, what’s out there
and who should we talk to?
I have some old rice genomic data in
format X, which is now deprecated;
what format has replaced X?
Which are the mature standards and
standards-compliant databases that
we should recommend to our authors?
How can FAIRsharing help you?

7. Data Policy
FAIRsharing visualizes relationships

8. • For more information on FAIR/BioSharing, please see our database paper:
• FAIRsharing is developing an API and shares data with a number of other resources
including the ELIXIR TeSS training portal and the Japanese Integbio database catalogue
• FAIRsharing works with publishers and funders to create and refine their data policies
• FAIRsharing is an ELIXIR-UK contributed resource and has active community working
groups in Research Data Alliance and Force11
• Go to https://fairsharing.org/new/ to add your standard, data repository or policy to
FAIRsharing.