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DANS is an institute of KNAW and NWO
dans.knaw.nl
DANS is an institute of KNAW and NWO
Measuring and enhancing
the level of FAIRness of research data
Marjan Grootveld, Eliane Fankhauser
Sharing is Caring X Amsterdam 2019 – November 22, 2019
https://dans.knaw.nl/ marjan.grootveld@dans.knaw.nl @dansknaw @MarjanGrootveld

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Everybody wants to be FAIR… But what does that
mean? How to put the principles into practice?
Everybody loves FAIR!
© Marjan Grootveld

“FAIRness” is a gradual quality
• How to measure the degree of FAIRness? Different approaches:
new data, existing data, new software, …
• DANS focuses on the degree of FAIRness of data in repositories:
• We promote actual reuse, not just reusability
• We know about trustworthy repositories*
• We believe that good digital repositories help to make and to keep data FAIR:
e.g. provide a PID, use standard metadata, advise on file formats
* DANS EASY: certified long-term repository for research data
easy.dans.knaw.nl/

DANS metrics tool: context and examples 1/2
The 12 questions don’t strictly follow the FAIR principles, but want to raise
awareness of long-term preservation:
e.g. no question about PID, and extra questions if needed.
https://satifyd.dans.knaw.nl/ Test version

DANS metrics tool: examples 2/2

DANS metrics tool: score and advice

dans.knaw.nl
DANS is an institute of KNAW en NWO
marjan.grootveld@dans.knaw.nl @MarjanGrootveldhttps://dans.knaw.nl/
FAIR is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed (free after William Gibson)
My question to you: we come from research – how useful is this for GLAM?
Any questions for me?
More about our FAIR-related activities since 2014:
P. Doorn, M. Grootveld, F. Morselli (to appear). FAIR Data work @ DANS: Implementing
metrics, reviews, and more. In: Conference proceedings iPRES 2019.
https://satifyd.dans.knaw.nl/