Fig 1.
Overview of the 10 rules to starting FAIR discussions.
It is important to define the community that needs to be involved (Rule 1) and gain partnerships and support (Rule 2). In these discussions, the social aspects of standardisation should be considered (Rule 3). It is therefore important to establish the benefits of standardisation processes (Rule 4) and to address the existing barriers (Rule 5). Keeping this in mind, it will become possible to set up minimum metadata requirements (Rule 6), documentation standards (Rule 7), and to identify the infrastructure that the community can make use of or should establish (Rule 8). In these efforts, the long-term sustainability should be considered (Rule 9). For each of these steps, it is important to share experiences (Rule 10).
Table 1.
Examples of organisations that can help finding RDM experts grouped by spatial focus (primarily in Europe) and domain specificity.
The examples are meant to give an indication, not an exhaustive overview. This overview is available at https://github.com/AngelicaMaineri/awesome-RDM-support/blob/main/README.md under a CC0 licence to allow reuse and extension.
Table 2.
A list of common repositories outlined in more detail in [61].