New Preprint Released from dkNET team: Alignment of biomedical data repositories with open, FAIR, citable and trust-worthy principles
- 10:06am January 28, 2021
- Ko-Wei Lin
dkNET Principal Investigator Dr. Maryann Martone and collaborators Drs. Fiona Murphy and Michael Bar-Sinai released a new preprint "Alignment of biomedical data repositories with open, FAIR, citable and trust-worthy principles" in bioRxiv! Check it out to learn about this helpful new tool for evaluating how well repositories support Open, FAIR, Citable and Trustworthy (OFCT) data!
Here is the abstract information from bioRxiv:
"Alignment of biomedical data repositories with open, FAIR, citable and trust-worthy principles
Fiona Murphy, Michael Bar-Sinai, Maryann E. Martone
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.19.427362
Increasing attention is being paid to the operation of biomedical data repositories in light of efforts to improve how scientific data is handled and made available for the long term. Simultaneously, groups around the world have been coming together to formalize principles that govern different aspects of open science and data sharing.The most well known are the FAIR data principles. These are joined by principles and practices that govern openness, citation, credit and good stewardship (trustworthiness). Together, these define a framework for data repositories to support Open, FAIR, Citable and Trustworthy (OFCT) data. Here we developed an instrument using the open source PolicyModels toolkit that attempts to operationalize key aspects of OFCT principles and applied the instrument to eight biomedical community repositories listed by the NIDDK Information Network (dkNET.org). The evaluation was performed through inspection of documentation and interaction with the sites. Overall, there was little explicit acknowledgement of any of the OFCT principles, although the majority of repositories provided at least some support for their tenets."
Source and More Information: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.19.427362v1