FDO Forum Contest ‘Name That Space’

Mar 16, 2022 | News

FDO Forum Contest ‘Name That Space’

Published on March 16, 2022

At our recent January 2022 High Level Panel of Future Data Space (an expert exchange exploring a vision of key scientific, technical and policy pillars of a future global data space), we referred to that space, for lack of a better agreed-upon term, as the global integrated data space (GIDS). However, GIDS does not necessarily have the cachet of FAIR nor does it fare particularly well when discussing PIDs in the GIDS.

We are therefore holding a contest to find a suitable name for a term as convincing and memorable as ‘Internet’, ‘Web’, and ‘FAIR’, each of which were widely agreed upon across sectors and disciplines and which could easily be related to the major concepts and visions they were representing. The future global domain of integrated digital objects can be further characterized by: FAIR, maximally open, stable, persistent, and supporting automatic processing. We are inviting the FDO community and its collaborative partners to help us name this space by making suggestions.

The FDO Forum will evaluate the suitability of the submissions and invite the FDO community to discuss a shortlist. The proposer submitting the winning suggestion will receive a FREE TICKET to the FDO Forum’s upcoming First International Conference on FAIR Digital Objects in Leiden, The Netherlands, 26-28 October. There is no guarantee that the chosen term will become widely accepted, but the FDO Forum will do its best to disseminate the term and share it with its collaborative partners.

You may submit as many suggestions (in English) as your creativity allows by submitting the form below. Submissions must be received by the end of the day on 30 April.

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Suggestions Received

Submission Date	First Name	Last Name	Email	Suggestion 1	Acronym	Suggestion 2	Acronym	Suggestion 3	Acronym	Comments	No Label	Submission ID	RecNo	Moderated	Moderated By
2022-03-16 12:30:59	Peter	Wittenburg	peter.wittenburg@mpcdf.mpg.de	Global Integrated Data Space	GIDS	Global Integrated Data domain	GIDD, GID2			not satisfying since not a catch term and since the term space is already used by others with specific connotations	Accepted	5232394594128780040	001	WAAR	tina
2022-03-16 18:46:56	IDS	Association	info@internationaldataspaces.org	International Data Space	IDS					suggested by a large industrial consortium associated with some restrictions; global might be better than international, as international sounds like limited to certain countries, global for sure integrates everybody in the world.	Accepted	5232620164121550247	002	WAAR	tina
2022-03-17 07:10:42	George	Strawn	gostrawn@gmail.com	FAIR Data Integrate	FDI					It includes the term FAIR which is important.	Accepted	5233066414226348556	003	WAAR	tina
2022-03-18 10:47:35	Karsten	Peters-von Gehlen	peters@dkrz.de	Data Unlimited	DU					envisions the possibilities	Accepted	5234060554128257599	004	WAAR	tina
2022-03-18 10:50:09	Bob	Hanisch	robert.hanisch@nist.gov	International, Interoperable, Integrated Data	I3D					three-dimensions of the data space, both I-3 and 3-D. I'd probably write the 3 as a superscript. Maybe not. global might be better than international, as international sounds like it's limited to certain countries, global for sure integrates everybody in the world.	Accepted	5234062094124452109	005	WAAR	tina
2022-03-18 10:52:55	Ivonne	Anders	anders@dkrz.de	Global Integrated Data Structure	GIDS	United Global Integrated Data Spaces	UGIDS			based on proposer #1.	Accepted	5234063754125633128	006	WAAR	tina
2022-03-18 11:04:52	Ivonne	Anders	anders@dkrz.de	Global Data System	GDS						Accepted	5234070924123571554	007	WAAR	tina
2022-03-18 11:10:36	Christophe	Blanchi	cblanchi@dona.net	Interoperable Data Fabric	IDF					Data Fabric is a term used to reference distributed/cloud IT architectures. It is neutral as to its context and extent and focuses on interoperability as its core tenet.	Accepted	5234074364126202173	008	WAAR	tina
2022-03-18 11:19:13	George	Strawn	gostrawn@gmail.com	FAIR Digital Integrate	FAIR.DI, FDI					The term FAIR should be in the name.	Accepted	5234079534124802168	009	WAAR	tina
2022-03-18 11:22:37	George	Strawn	gostrawn@gmail.com	FAIR Digital Interoperate	FDI					OSI was the internet competitor in the 80-90s. O was for open, S was for systems, and I was for interconnect. Now we know that fair is better than just open, and we’re talking about data not systems. And our goal is still to interconnect—fair data, not open systems. Moreover, this name contains F for fair, the most popular acronym of all time.	Accepted	5234081574129218223	010	WAAR	tina
2022-03-18 14:20:35	Maggie	Hellström	margareta.hellstrom@nateko.lu.se	Integrated Digital Object space (that is fully) FAIR	InDOsFAIR	FAIR digital object Domain	FAIRdom	Interweb of FAIR Digital Objects	InterFAIR	I've tried to come up with acronyms that are easy to pronounce, regardless of the native language of the speaker. I think that quality may be more important than the acronym closely representing a specific phrase - this explanation or meaning can always be explained in an accompanying sentence.	Accepted	5234188357997127296	011	WAAR	tina
2022-03-18 17:29:21	Stuart	Chalk	schalk@unf.edu	globally organized online data space	GOOD Space					We can say we are in a "GOOD space" with our data... At a stretch you could also say we are dealing in FAIR GOODs...	Accepted	5234301618217249581	012	WAAR	tina
2022-03-20 06:28:57	Peter	Wittenburg	peter.wittenburg@mpcdf.mpg.de	FAIR Digital Object Domain	FAIR.DOD					Based on Record 9	Accepted	5235633374121587538	013	WAAR	tina
2022-03-20 06:31:02	Peter	Wittenburg	Peter.Wittenburg@mpcdf.mpg.de	FAIR Digital Object Space	FAIR.DOS					Based on Record 9. Commenter 1 argues why not FDOS instead as acronym; Commenter 2 says, there is a nice progression: Internet --> Web --> Space	Accepted	5235634624129896602	014	WAAR	tina
2022-03-20 06:33:24	Peter	Wittenburg	peter.wittenburg@mpcdf.mpg.de	FAIR Dataverse	FDV					The term dataverse is already being occupied by a db company, verse is currently a hype term	Accepted	5235636044128464244	015	WAAR	tina
2022-03-20 06:36:11	Erik	Schultes	erik.schultes@go-fair.org	Web of FAIR Data and Services	WFDS					is the next layer of the internet, above WWW (so Internet-->WWW-->WFDS); is there a preference for "network" versus "web"?	Accepted	5235637704123077372	017	WAAR	tina
2022-03-20 06:37:24	Erik	Schultes	erik.schultes@go-fair.org	World Wide FAIR Web	WWFW	World Wide Web of FAIR Digital Objects	WWWFDO				Accepted	5235638444121117457	018	WAAR	tina
2022-03-20 06:39:52	Erik	Schultes	erik.schultes@go-fair.org	FAIR Web	FW	FAIR Digital Object Web	FDOW				Accepted	5235639924121487096	019	WAAR	tina
2022-03-20 06:45:54	Erik	Schultes	erik.schultes@go-fair.org	Web of FAIR Digital Objects	WFDO	Internet for Machines / Internet of Machines	IM			IM: stress the automated, machine-actionable elements	Accepted	5235643544126627492	020	WAAR	tina
2022-03-20 06:48:42	Erik	Schultes	erik.schultes@go-fair.org	Web for Machines / Web of Machines	WM	World Wide Web for Machines / World Wide Web of Machines	WWWM			stress the automated, machine-actionable elements	Accepted	5235645224124345491	021	WAAR	tina
2022-03-20 06:52:41	Merret	Buurman	buurman@dkrz.de	Data Conversation Circle	DCC, DCon	fdos in conversation	FC or FDOC			Less descriptive, less serious (and less on-point). But sounds a bit as if it was conversation about data, while it's meant to mean a conversation between data [objects]...	Accepted	5235647614124126836	022	WAAR	tina
2022-03-20 06:54:07	Merret	Buurman	buurman@dkrz.de	chattering data, chattering objects, (chattering FDOs?), ((data gossip ???)	CD ChatD					Even less descriptive 🙂	Accepted	5235648474128586880	023	WAAR	tina
2022-03-20 06:56:08	Yann	Le Franc	ylefranc@esciencefactory.com	Datanet	Datanet	Web of Data	WoD			Datanet: Data Network (should include data and data related services)	Accepted	5235649684127059563	024	WAAR	tina
2022-03-20 06:58:06	Klaas	Wierenga	Klaas.wierenga@geant.org	Global Repository of Integrated Data	GRID					I think Grid is long enough dead to recycle 😉	Accepted	5235650864129098146	025	WAAR	tina
2022-03-20 07:00:16	Fidan	Limani	f.limani@zbw.eu	Universal FAIR Resources	U FAIR					The term mimicks that of the URI/URL, and it stresses the fact that these are self-contained, universally addressable (Digital Object) resources.	Accepted	5235652164127306874	026	WAAR	tina
2022-03-20 07:01:42	Fidan	Limani	f.limani@zbw.eu	The Universal FAIR Domain	U FAIR Domain?					Similar to the previous version, but this time considering the "domain" aspect	Accepted	5235653024121612867	027	WAAR	tina
2022-03-20 07:03:22	Rob	Quick	fquick@iu.edu	Web of Interoperable Digital Objects	WIDO						Accepted	5235654024124980147	028	WAAR	tina
2022-03-20 07:26:30	Maggie	Hellström	margareta.hellstrom@nateko.lu.se	Interweb of FAIR Digital Objects	InterFAIR					see comment Rec# 11	Accepted	5235667904124717081	029	WAAR	tina
2022-03-21 09:17:52	jc	burgelman	jean-claude.burgelman@vub.be	IDweb	inernational data web					it needs to be international its about data (and ideas ) it remains a web	Accepted	5236598717815247984	030	WAAR	tina
2022-03-21 15:12:24	Koenraad	De Smedt	desmedt@uib.no	Interdata	The Interdata	FAIR Digital Object Trust	The Trust			No acronyms, but short and colloquial forms	Accepted	5236811442285530217	031	WAAR	tina
2022-03-23 15:14:15	Maggie	Hellström	margareta.hellstrom@nateko.lu.se	The universal FAIR digital object space	UniFAIRse					A term that encompasses everything that is needed to manage, store and process FAIR digital objects 🙂	Accepted	5238540559318282451	032	WAAR	tina
2022-04-21 13:58:40	Ulrich	Schwardmann	uschwar1@gwdg.de	FAIR Data Grid	FDG	FAIR Digital Object Grid	FDOG			The term GRID was mainly used for techniques to overcome institutional silos some years ago. It focused mainly on computation and service access. But the idea to overcome silos also perhaps even more valid for data. FDOs represent both: FAIRness and a universal and generic approach to access data. They provide a FAIR Data Grid.	Accepted	5263515125854967241	033	WAAR	tina
2022-05-12 23:46:54	Kathryn	Knight	knight.kathryn@gmail.com	Building an Integrated Network of Global Objects	BINGO						Accepted	5282012145116637066	034	WAAR	tina
2022-05-12 23:48:18	Kathryn	Knight	knight.kathryn@gmail.com	Global Objects, Open Data	GOOD						Accepted	5282012985112834679	035	WAAR	tina
2022-05-19 17:47:42	Bonnie c	Carroll	bcarrolltn@gmail.com	World Brain	World Brain					This is a term that was used before its time but maybe the time is right today. Need to see if there may be a trademark. This gets to the connection of all FDOs like neurological connections and becomes the basis of a knowledge brain.HG Wells used the term in a book: https://www.google.com/books/edition/World_Brain/YtIQDQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover	Accepted	5287844627111321661	036	WAAR	tina
2022-05-25 22:44:50	Peter	Carr	pjc@me.com	world wide web of data	w3d					It's the world wide web of data! A natural extension of the world wide web.	Accepted	5293206907918126094	038	WAAR	tina
2022-06-10 11:12:49	Martin Thomas	Horsch	martin.thomas.horsch@nmbu.no	related reusable resources	RRR					The suggestion is to use RRR as a recognizable analogy to WWW. There are various ways to implement this. One R might be "resource", one could come from FAIR, and one might be "relation" or similar as in "edge in a knowledge graph". Now a common thought when looking for a FDO may be, I have some problem and "I am looking for related reusable resources". Where would you look? On the RRR. Therefore I recommend "Related Reusable Resources".	Accepted	5306615693429393113	039	WAAR	tina
2022-06-30 15:02:17	Franck	Cotton	franck.cotton@insee.fr	FAIR Space	FS	FAIR Ground	FG			First suggestion is a pun on "Airspace". Could also be FAIR Space One... Second suggestion is a reference to "Fairground" (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fairground)	Accepted	5324033375919677293	040	WAAR	tina
2022-07-15 22:12:15	Tina	Loo	tina.loo@naturalis.nl	The Fabric	The Fab, The Fabric					At the point that this term will become widely used, FAIR will have become a standard for interoperability so it will not be relevant for FAIR to be part of the name. The Fabric represents the interwoven, interconnected nature of a cohesive whole.	Accepted	5337251354124635868	041	WAAR	tina

Enter the Contest

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FDO Forum & DIN sign MoU

Jan 21, 2022 | News

Shaping the Global Integrated Data Space

The Fair Digital Objects Forum (FDO Forum) and the German Institute for Standardization (DIN) have signed a collaboration agreement to foster the shaping of the emerging Global Integrated Data Space (GIDS) which will enable the building of a stable and manageable data space opening the way to urgently needed data sharing and trading while respecting data ownership and access privileges.

Collaboration Goals

The collaboration is intended to strengthen the existing friendly relationship and cooperation between the two Parties: (1) desiring to promote mutual interest through cooperation in the field of standardization and related areas on the basis of equality and mutual benefits, (2) aiming to establish a more firm and continuous dialogue platform by means of sharing knowledge and good practices, by exchanging approaches to standardization strategies and discussing global standardization issues, and (3) considering their common interest to promote and foster cooperation in the spirit of equality and mutual benefit on a voluntary basis and without legal binding.

Collaboration Implementation

This collaboration will include the following key areas of collaboration:

By liaising with DIN, FDOF will provide access to the platform and its members to promote an effective cooperation among all partners and relevant stakeholders in terms of developing and setting standards;
Taking advantage of this potential, DIN intends to identify and where applicable agree on technology areas, fields, or items for reciprocal standards cooperation;
Organization of joint seminars and symposia;
Sharing of expertise on the training and further education of specialists in standardization;
Establishing and where applicable agreeing on joint research/study in order to contribute to international standardization such as ISO, IEC, and other standards development activities;
Deliverables of this liaison should be concrete recommendations and the outline of standardization needs in the various areas of FAIR Digital Objects
By cooperation with FDOF DIN intends to realize identified recommendations and initiate standardization activities in Europe and throughout the world;
In turn, partnering with DIN will provide FDOF the opportunity to contribute to standards work with global validity;

Our agreement in the News

High Level Panel on Future Data Space

Nov 18, 2021 | News

High Level Panel on Future Data Space

How a vision of the internet of FAIR data becomes a reality.

For this panel, we will ask the panelists to present their ideas about essential aspects of the future data space. Then we will ask some well-known experts of different backgrounds to comment on these ideas and give the panelists the chance to respond. Finally, we will open the floor to the audience to raise questions, present views and give comments.

Wednesday 19 January 2022

13.00 - 17.00 UTC

Agenda Session Descriptions Presentations Video Playlist Concluding Remarks

Purpose of the event

Large sums of money, and equally great ambitions, are already being directed towards developing data/research infrastructures, for science and for industry, and there is no doubt that much additional awareness, new insights and new types of services and tools will emerge. Despite these huge investments there is no agreed view on how the future data space should be organized, what its key pillars should be and how access to data will be managed and facilitated. EOSC for example is based on the FAIR principles and a distributed service landscape, with further specifications currently being derived by expert Task Forces. Similar to the ESFRI process, NFDI relies on a process of discipline-driven infrastructure building, while recognizing that this leaves a gap to be bridged with respect to common services and standards. NIH Commons a conceptual framework for a digital environment was designed to allow efficient storage, manipulation, and sharing of research objects. Meanwhile, big industry is defining strategies for offering services on data based on proprietary binding mechanisms, seriously hampering innovation.

This panel will initiate a discussion across initiatives about major organizational principles and key pillars, and is intended as the first of a series of meetings on this topic. Its goal, therefore, is to identify major aspects that need to be considered when examining the emerging future global data space. For this purpose, we invited four “thinkers” whom we know dare to look ahead without being bound by current projects and political considerations.

Panelists

PAOLO BUDRONI
Since 2019 Paolo Budroni has been a senior researcher at TU Wien and Head of the EOSC and International Liaison Office ( TU Wien Library). His other positions include Chair of the e-Infrastructures Reflection Group, Coordinator of the Austrian EOSC Mandated Organisation, and member of permanent staff of the University of Vienna (since 1991). Budroni holds a PhD in Philosophy, Art History, and Romance Philology (University of Vienna, 1986).

LUCIANO FLORIDI
Luciano Floridi is Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford, and Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at the University of Bologna. His areas of expertise include digital ethics, the ethics of AI, the philosophy of information and the philosophy of technology, topics on which he is an internationally renowned authority and has published more than 300 works. He is deeply engaged with emerging policy initiatives on the socio-ethical value and implications of digital technologies and their applications, and collaborates closely on these topics with many governments and companies worldwide.

BETH PLALE
Plale is the McRobbie Professor of Computer Engineering in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University, and serves at the University as Executive Director of the Pervasive Technology Institute and Director of the Data To Insight Center. Plale’s research interests are in AI knowledge representation, safe and trustworthy AI, data management, data provenance, and cloud computing. Plale served at the US National Science Foundation (2017-2021) in a policy position in open science, and is one of the founding members of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) where she served as inaugural chair of the RDA Technical Advisory Board.

JÜRGEN RENN
Jürgen Renn is a German historian of science, and Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin since 1994. He is honorary professor for History of Science at both the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Freie Universität Berlin. In addition, he has taught at Boston University, at the ETH in Zurich and at the University of Tel Aviv. Among his most recent publications is The Evolution of Knowledge: Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene (2020, Princeton University Press).

Commenters

JEAN-CLAUDE BURGELMAN
Jean-Claude Burgelman is professor of Open Science at the Free University of Brussels. He retired on 1-3-2020 from the European Commission as Open Access Envoy and head of unit Open Science at DG RTD. Since 2014, he and his team developed the EC’s polices on open science, the science cloud, open data and access. He joined the European Commission in 1999 as a Visiting Scientist in the Joint Research Centre (the Institute of Prospective Technological Studies – IPTS), where he became Head of the Information Society Unit. In January 2008, he moved to the Bureau of European Policy Advisers (attached to the EC president) as adviser for innovation policy.

DEBORA DRUCKER
Debora Drucker is a research data management specialist at Embrapa Digital Agriculture, one of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation Research Centers. She is one of the co-chairs of the Research Data Alliance IGAD Community of Practice (Improving Global Agricultural Data) and Professionalizing Data Stewardship Interest Group and an expert at the Data and Knowledge Task Force of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). She holds a degree in Forestry from University of São Paulo, Master in Ecology at the National Institute for Amazonian Research and Phd in Environment and Society from University of Campinas.

SABINA LEONELLI
Sabina Leonelli serves as the Co-Director of the Exeter Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences (Egenis), where she leads the Data Studies research strand; theme lead for the “Data Governance, Openness and Ethics” strand of the Exeter Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDSAI); and Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute in London. She is also Editor-in-Chief of the international journal History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, together with Professor Giovanni Boniolo, and Associate Editor for the Harvard Data Science Review.

SARAH M. NUSSER
Sarah M. Nusser is professor emerita of statistics at Iowa State University and research professor at the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute. She previously served as vice president for research at Iowa State University and director of ISU’s Center for Survey Statistics and Methodology. Nusser is actively involved in US efforts to promote open science, transparency, and public access to research data. She serves as chair of the US National Academies Board on Research Data and Information, is senior fellow with the Association of American Universities on its Accelerating Public Access to Research Data initiative.

Food for Thought

“Data Science” introduced as a 4th dimension, will increasingly dominate. What kind of risks and dangers are inherent in the approach, what kind of mechanisms need to be implemented to counter the risks, and how do we democratize access to data and advanced tools?
Is the assumption correct that the data space we are imagining is definitively a global one?
What kind of agreements will be necessary to enable a phase of cross-border (countries, organizations, companies) use which incorporates as a central concept the sustainability of life and which respects rights on resources and investments?
Is this transitional phase we are experiencing historically unique, or can we learn from history? If so, in what way can we draw conclusions about how the future data space should look like?
Who will be the owner of the Global Data Space and which authority decides on the rights and obligations of citizens with respect to the use of the Global data Space?

Reading Material

Here are a few references and pointers to reading material.
L. Floridi: 4th Revolution: How the Infosphere Is Reshaping Human Reality. Oxford University Press
L. Floridi: The Philosophy of Information. Oxford University Press
J. Renn: The Evolution of Knowledge: Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene. Princeton University
Press

Panel Outcomes

View on key pillars of future data space	Commenter	Commenter presentation	Response	Video
INTRODUCTION	Peter Wittenburg	Presentation		Video
GENERAL	Luciano Floridi		Sabina Leonelli	Video
SCIENCE	Jürgen Renn	Presentation	Debora Drucker	Video
TECHNICAL	Beth Plale		Sarah Nusser	Video
POLICY	Paolo Budroni	Presentation	Jean Claude Burgelman	Video
CONCLUSION	George Strawn			Video

A few words on the FDO Forum

Mar 14, 2021 | About

Organizing the International FAIR Digital Objects (FDO) Community

We are pleased to announce an organizational process to advance the specification and application of FAIR Digital Objects (FDO). The objective is to achieve a better coherence amongst the increasing number of initiatives working on FDO-based designs and implementations. The result will be to formalize an international FDO Forum. The FDO Forum is proposed as a neutral place where policy, researchers and technological experts can meet to exchange information about all relevant aspects related to FDOs. This initiative has the support of major global initiatives and by a variety of regional and national initiatives. A sign-on process is being put in place.

Motivation & Community

The revolution in both scientific and commercial data generation and availability over the past few decades has yet to be matched by a revolution in the ways in which that tsunami of data can be efficiently and effectively managed, used, interpreted, and exchanged. The FAIR Digital Objects (FDO) community brings together the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) Guiding Principles, including its strong emphasis on machine-actionability, with the concept of Digital Objects (DO), which supports interoperability across existing and evolving data regimes using powerful principles of abstraction, persistent binding, and encapsulation.

We aim toward a new infrastructure, an architectural extension of the Internet – the Internet of FAIR Data and Services – that can help achieve an interoperable, stable, and persistent domain of digital artifacts and thus a reliable and usable digital memory for the coming centuries. An organized FDO community can help pave the way to automated data management and processing and can serve as an accelerant for advances in semantic technologies, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. FDO Forum activities will be in the service of providing direct and coherent access to the new world of data for science, business and government.

The International FDO Forum will bring together:

Infrastructure researchers, engineers and developers responsible for the design and implementation of the evolving domain of digital research artifacts,
Information technology researchers, tool builders, and data/service providers, including those from industry, looking to both provide and exploit new infrastructural capabilities, change data management and processing practices, extend the Internet architecture, and design and deploy new semantic technologies,
Researchers and Data users who can describe use cases where the need for these new developments are critical in solving technical and societal challenges,
Policy makers, funders, and leading thinkers who are guiding the future of the evolving Open Science and Open Data cultures.

Relevant Topics & Request for Ideas

The International FDO Forum organizers have already identified some important topics that need to be addressed in 2022, including

Evolving FAIR compliant data and services landscape and approaches to designing a stable and interoperable domain of digital artefacts
Strategies for FAIR ‘on boarding’ existing and legacy systems, and the tremendous opportunity for the development of approaches that are ‘FAIR by design’.
Core concepts, specifications and technologies that can foster the domain of FAIR DOs and create worldwide service landscapes (protocols, security, AAI, type registries, ontologies, etc.)
Legal, privacy and other socio-technical issues and approaches surrounding adoption and use of FDOs
Current data practices and the ways in which FDOs can improve them (filling gaps, FAIR Implementation Profiles, etc.)
Impact of FDOs on the federation of repositories, registries and service centers
Canonical research-driven workflow frameworks based on FDO and their impact on current research practices
Use of FDOs in advancing data publications
FDOs and semantic cross-walking between artifacts from different silos and disciplines

While the concept of FDOs is very clear to those founding this Forum, it is a concept that has many facets. We recognize that a consensus definition of FDOs will evolve and become more clearly defined with scientific advancements, research practices, and techniques.

We would like to encourage the community interested in FDO related matters to make suggestions for further topics that need to be addressed and which can serve to advance the FDO domain and to create momentum. If you have identified a topic, please, send a short description of the intentions including an indication of the co-chairs (1 page) to the following address: secretariat@fairdo.org

Workshop Series, International Conferences

In 2022, the International FDO Forum will organize a series of virtual workshops to advance information exchange about FDOs, to identify gaps in the specification and service landscape, to foster additional specifications where necessary, to enable an interaction about implementation issues, and to liaise closely with policy level discussion forums.

In October 2022, the International FDO Forum will organize its first International FDO Conference which will be structured and informed by the workshops held in the months before.

Communication with the Community

It should be noted that we intend to publish workshop outputs in official data journals when this turns out to be useful to advance the discussions. Both, the number and the timing of multiple 2021/2022 workshops, is under discussion and will in part be determined by responses to this announcement.

In addition, the Website “fairdo.org” will be used as central point for all information exchange. It will contain material and references relevant in the context of FDO and maintain a continuing communication about ongoing activities.

Reference Reading

For background on FDOs and the work of the community, the following are some suggested readings. A reference list will be kept on the Website.

Some References

Call for papers

Mar 13, 2021 | Uncategorized

Call for Papers on Canonical Workflow Frameworks for Research

Data Intelligence is seeking papers for a special issue devoted to Canonical Workflow Frameworks for Research. Deadline for abstract submissions: March 14, 2021.

The journal is seeking papers describing practical experience on the design and deployment of effective workflows, supporting major phases of the research data lifecycle; especially those phases surrounding (either side of) the core activities of experimentation, data processing and analysis i.e., those phases concerned with hypothesis and investigation planning, data management planning, organization and operation, reproducibility planning, provenance recording, and data curation and publication in successive steps.

More details can be found on the OSF CWFR page.

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