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The FAIRification Process

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The FAIRification Process is structured as 4 distinct phases described below.

  1. Define goals
    Determine the purpose and expected outcome of FAIRification, in terms of desired usability of the research asset that isn’t currently possible.

  2. Examine requirements
    Assess the current state of the activity against the FAIRification goal, including available tools, software, expertise, budget, and time constraints.

  3. Design & implement
    Define and deliver on practical, achievable objectives across one or more release cycles to realise the overall FAIRification goal.

  4. Review & report
    Review outcomes and assess success against original goals, also disseminating lessons learned to support future FAIRification activities.

Consider planning ahead to share your experiences. While improving the framework and the surrounding ecosystem of resources, this can also increase the visibility and recognistion of the work that you do and create opportunities to expand your professional network:

  • Improve the framework
    Use evidence from FAIRification activities, contributors and the wider ecosystem to keep the FAIRification framework coherent, useful and up to date.
  • Improve the resources
    Identify results and lessons from a FAIRification story that could help others, and contribute them to appropriate community resources.