Towards FAIR principles for research software

Anna-Lena Lamprecht; Leyla Garcia; Mateusz Kuzak; Carlos Martinez; Ricardo Arcila; Eva Martin; Victoria Dominguez De Angel; Stephanie van de Sandt; Jon Ison; Paula Andrea Martinez; Peter McQuilton; Alfonso Valencia; Jennifer Harrow; Fotis Psomopoulos; Josep Ll. Gelpi; Neil Chue Hong; Carole Goble; Salvador Capella-Gutierrez

doi:10.3233/DS-190026

Towards FAIR principles for research software

Anna-Lena Lamprecht, Leyla Garcia, Mateusz Kuzak, Carlos Martinez, Ricardo Arcila, Eva Martin, Victoria Dominguez De Angel, Stephanie van de Sandt, Jon Ison, Paula Andrea Martinez, Peter McQuilton, Alfonso Valencia, Jennifer Harrow, Fotis Psomopoulos, Josep Ll. Gelpi, Neil Chue Hong, Carole Goble, Salvador Capella-Gutierrez

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The FAIR Guiding Principles, published in 2016, aim to improve the findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability of digital research objects for both humans and machines. Until now the FAIR principles have been mostly applied to research data. The ideas behind these principles are, however, also directly relevant to research software. Hence there is a distinct need to explore how the FAIR principles can be applied to software. In this work, we aim to summarize the current status of the debate around FAIR and software, as a basis for the development of definite community-agreed principles for FAIR research software in the future. We discuss what makes software different from data with respect to the application of the FAIR principles, present an analysis of where the existing principles can directly be applied to software, where they need to be adapted or reinterpreted, and where the definition of additional principles is required. Furthermore, we discuss desired characteristics of research software that go beyond FAIR.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	37-59
Journal	Data Science
Volume	3
Issue number	1
Early online date	13 Nov 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3233/DS-190026
Publication status	Published - 12 Jun 2020

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Chue Hong, N. (Principal Investigator)
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FAIR Principles for Research Software (FAIR4RS Principles) 1.0
Chue Hong, N. P., Katz, D. S. & Barker, M., 24 May 2022, Research Data Alliance Recommendations and Outputs 30 p.
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The FAIR4RS team: Working together to make research software FAIR
Katz, D. S., Barker, M., Chue Hong, N. P., Garcia Castro, L. J. & Martinez, P. A., 8 Jun 2021. 4 p.
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FAIR Research Software and Science Gateways
Katz, D. S., Barker, M., Garcia Castro, L. J., Chue Hong, N. P., Gruenpeter, M., Harrow, J. L., Martinez Ortiz, C., Martinez, P. A. & Psomopoulos, F., 24 May 2021, (Accepted/In press).
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Lamprecht, A.-L., Garcia, L., Kuzak, M., Martinez, C., Arcila, R., Martin, E., Dominguez De Angel, V., van de Sandt, S., Ison, J., Martinez, P. A., McQuilton, P., Valencia, A., Harrow, J., Psomopoulos, F., Gelpi, J. L., Chue Hong, N., Goble, C., & Capella-Gutierrez, S. (2020). Towards FAIR principles for research software. Data Science, 3(1), 37-59. https://doi.org/10.3233/DS-190026

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FAIR Principles for Research Software (FAIR4RS Principles) 1.0

The FAIR4RS team: Working together to make research software FAIR

FAIR Research Software and Science Gateways

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