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. 2023 Nov 4;10(1):764.
doi: 10.1038/s41597-023-02652-8.

FAIR EVA: Bringing institutional multidisciplinary repositories into the FAIR picture

Fernando Aguilar Gómez #  1 , Isabel Bernal #  2
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FAIR EVA: Bringing institutional multidisciplinary repositories into the FAIR picture

Fernando Aguilar Gómez et al. Sci Data. .

Abstract

The FAIR Principles are a set of good practices to improve the reproducibility and quality of data in an Open Science context. Different sets of indicators have been proposed to evaluate the FAIRness of digital objects, including datasets that are usually stored in repositories or data portals. However, indicators like those proposed by the Research Data Alliance are provided from a high-level perspective that can be interpreted and they are not always realistic to particular environments like multidisciplinary repositories. This paper describes FAIR EVA, a new tool developed within the European Open Science Cloud context that is oriented to particular data management systems like open repositories, which can be customized to a specific case in a scalable and automatic environment. It aims to be adaptive enough to work for different environments, repository software and disciplines, taking into account the flexibility of the FAIR Principles. As an example, we present DIGITAL.CSIC repository as the first target of the tool, gathering the particular needs of a multidisciplinary institution as well as its institutional repository.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no competing interests.

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Potential benefits for different types of users of FAIR EVA.
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Based on one digital object, examples of what FAIR EVA checks within its list of tests.
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FAIR EVA Architecture.
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DIGITAL.CSIC Plug-in - Flow description.
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Workflow for deploy and config a FAIR EVA instance.
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Homepage of the web service https://fair.csic.es/es .
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Look and feel of the overall assessment of the dataset at https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/211284 .
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Snapshot of the assessment of one RDA indicator in a real example and how the Tips provided lead users to the support web site.
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Look and feel of a dataset record page at DIGITAL.CSIC promoting the usage of FAIR EVA tool https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/153984 .
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Evaluation of object 10261/244749.
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Evaluation of object 10261/172425.
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Metrics of metadata-related indicators.
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Metrics of repository-related indicators.
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Knowledge representation of test implementation and relationships with indicators and principles.
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