OSTrails - Digital Object Survey Results

This is a concatenated set of results of a survey covering the types of digital research objects used (and intended to be assessed by FAIR evaluation tools) by members of the OSTrails consortium. Objective of this Survey The existing set of FAIR assessment tools (https://fairassist.org) are limited in the scope of digital objects they are intended to test, and generally are “domain-agnostic”, testing only FAIR features that can be expected across most/all specialist domains. For example, the FAIR Evaluator and F-UJI are primarily aimed at testing traditional datasets accessible in repositories, while tools such as FOOPS! are intended to be used to test semantic artefacts like ontologies. An RDA Working Group has also created a set of modified Metrics that can be applied to FAIR assessment of software. In OSTrails, we have a commitment to expand FAIR testing into a wider range of digital objects, and also to ensure that the narrative rubric(s) reflect the expectations of different stakeholder and scholarly communities - defining the what, how, and why for a FAIR test, and how to interpret the results, in a more domain-specific manner. The purpose of this survey is to ask the OSTrails Thematic Pilots to (i) identify the kinds of digital objects that they feel are important to track/assess, indicate (ii) where are these stored and made available (to researchers and tools), as well as (iii) detail what community standards are used, if any, to represent and identify these objects; and (iv) to get an early indication of the features of those digital objects that are of interest to that community v.v. quality assurance. Members of WP3 used the results of this survey to start designing the FAIR rubrics and the test code, as well as to ensure that the FAIRsharing registry has all relevant information on the repositories and standards used by the pilots to power the FAIR tests. Find out more about the resulting Assessment Interoperability Framework developed using the results of this survey (among other sources) at https://docs.ostrails.eu/en/latest/architecture/fair_if.html. Survey Attribution This document contains collated responses from a variety of the EOSC Science Clusters. More information about the pilots used as the context in which these responses were gathered can be found at https://ostrails.eu/case-studies. Individual respondents are attributed as authors of this document and also shown below in the context of their survey responses. Renaud Duyme https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9909-1074 Theme 2 - PaNOSC - ESRF - SOLEIL - ILL PaNOSC Oana Dragomir https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7929-9727 Theme 3 - ENVRI - JERICO ENVRI Nikolaos Zarokanellos https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6235-6198 Theme 3 - ENVRI - JERICO ENVRI Miguel Charcos Llorens https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7848-1631 Theme 3 - ENVRI - JERICO ENVRI Alen Vodopijevec https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1003-0281 Theme 5 - SSHOC - CESSDA SSHOC Matej Durco https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5274-8278 Theme 6 - SSHOC - CLARIN - OEAW SSHOC Michael Kurzmeier https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4925-5197 Theme 6 - SSHOC - CLARIN - OEAW SSHOC Menzo Windhouwer https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2204-4018 Theme 8 - SSHOC - CLARIN SSHOC Baptiste Cecconi https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7915-5571 Theme 9 - ESCAPE - ObsParis ESCAPE OSTRAILS: EU funded program (grant no 101130187), https://ostrails.eu