New set of indicators for the FAIR Data Maturity Model

Dear members of the FAIR Data Maturity Model Working Group,
The editorial team is pleased to announce a new version of the indicators,
based on the feedback received on GitHub.
We have made changes to the wording of the indicators, including an
indication whether they apply to metadata or to data, and also additional
text to make the connection to the principle clearer.
The 50 indicators that we currently have are the following:
F
F1
F1-01M
Metadata is identified by a persistent identifier
F1
F1-02M
Metadata is identified by a universally unique identifier
F1
F1-01D
Data is identified by a persistent identifier
F1
F1-02D
Data is identified by a universally unique identifier
F2
F2-01M
Sufficient metadata is provided to allow discovery, following
domain/discipline-specific metadata standard
F2
F2-02M
Metadata is provided for the discovery-related elements defined by the RDA
Metadata IG, as much as possible and relevant, if no
domain/discipline-specific metadata standard is available
F3
F3-01M
Metadata includes the identifier for the data
F4
F4-01M
Metadata or landing page is harvested by general search engine
F4
F4-02M
Metadata is harvested by or submitted to domain/discipline-specific portal
F4
F4-03M
Metadata is indexed in institutional repository
A
A1
A1-01M
Metadata includes information about access conditions
A1
A1-01D
Data is available for manual download
A1
A1-02D
Data is available for automatic download
A1
A1-02M
Metadata identifier resolves to a metadata record
A1
A1-03D
Data identifier resolves to a data file
A1
A1-03M
Metadata is accessed through standardised protocol
A1
A1-04D
Data is accessible through standardised protocol
A1.1
A1.1-01D
Data is accessible through a free access protocol
A1.1
A1.1-02D
Data is accessible through an open-source access protocol
A1.2
A1.2-01D
Data is accessible through an access protocol that supports authentication
A1.2
A1.2-02D
Data is accessible through an access protocol that supports authorisation
A1.2
A1.2-01M
Metadata includes information relevant for access control
A2
A2-01M
Metadata is guaranteed to remain available after data is no longer available
I
I1
I1-01M
Metadata uses knowledge representation expressed in standardised format
I1
I1-02M
Metadata uses machine-understandable knowledge representation
I1
I1-03M
Metadata uses self-describing knowledge representation
I1
I1-01D
Data uses knowledge representation expressed in standardised format
I1
I1-02D
Data uses machine-understandable knowledge representation
I1
I1-03D
Data uses self-describing knowledge representation
I2
I2-01M
Metadata uses standard vocabularies
I2
I2-01D
Data uses standard vocabularies
I2
I2-02M
Metadata uses FAIR-compliant vocabularies
I2
I2-02D
Data uses FAIR-compliant vocabularies
I3
I3-01M
Metadata includes references to other metadata
I3
I3-01D
Data includes references to other data
I3
I3-02M
Metadata includes sufficiently qualified references to other metadata
I3
I3-02D
Data includes sufficiently qualified references to other data
R
R1
R1-01M
Sufficient metadata is provided to allow reuse, following
domain/discipline-specific metadata standard
R1
R1-02M
Metadata is provided for the reuse-related elements defined by the RDA
Metadata IG, as much as possible and relevant, if no
domain/discipline-specific metadata standard is available
R1.1
R1.1-01M
Metadata includes information about the licence under which the data can be
reused
R1.1
R1.1-02M
Metadata refers to a standard reuse licence
R1.1
R1.1-03M
Metadata includes licence information in the appropriate element of the
metadata standard used
R1.1
R1.1-04M
Metadata refers to a machine-understandable reuse licence
R1.1
R1.1-06M
Metadata includes information about consent for reuse (e.g. for personal
data)
R1.2
R1.2-01M
Metadata includes provenance information according to community-specific
guidelines
R1.2
R1.2-02M
Metadata includes provenance information according to a cross-domain
language
R1.3
R1.3-01M
Metadata complies with a community standard
R1.3
R1.3-01D
Data complies with a community standard
R1.3
R1.3-02M
Metadata is expressed in compliance with a machine-understandable community
standard
R1.3
R1.3-02D
Data is expressed in compliance with a machine-understandable community
standard
You are kindly invited to look at the updated indicators on GitHub at
https://github.com/RDA-FAIR/FAIR-data-maturity-model-WG/issues. You are most
welcome to provide further feedback on the indicators.
The editorial team is currently working on a proposal for prioritisation of
the indicators in categories 'mandatory', 'recommended' and 'optional'. We
plan to share a first proposal by the end of next week (9 August) for your
review and comment.
Kind regards,
Makx Dekkers and the editorial team