FAIR Digital Objects (FAIR DOs) describe a concept of virtual data objects that has been developed and used by RDA in various Working and Interest Groups. FAIR DOs may represent data, software, or other research resources. They are uniquely identified by a Persistent Identifier (PID) and metadata rich enough to enable them to be reliably found, used and cited. 

FAIR DOs are currently discussed world-wide, in many RDA groups, in the European Open Science Cloud, the FDO Forum https://fairdo.org, as well as in other initiatives with the need to design and develop large integrative research data infrastructures to facilitate findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability (FAIR).

Although there exists a list of demonstrators and testbeds, there is still a need for collecting convincing ideas for potential success stories and “killer applications”.

In this session we would like to collect and to discuss FAIR Digital Object applications, success stories, and use cases. The session is open for potential contributors to give a short presentation (5 minutes) of their cases and ideas. 

Collaborative session notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QwOeRHJsZ-GTq1KvPAS8yQn3iM6a7J76MPCErlwqR1U/edit?usp=sharing

1. Short introduction IG Data Fabric (5m) [Rainer Stotzka]
2. High Level Views on FDO (10m) [Christine Kilpatrick]
3. Up to 7 teasers (3-5m each) and discussions
   • FDO Use Case from Earth System Science [Ivonne Anders]
   • Computational Workflows as FAIR Digital Objects using RO-Crate [Stian Soiland-Reyes] 
   • FAIR Digital Objects in Materials Science and Engineering [Rossella Aversa, Zachary Trautt]
   • CAS Data Infrastructure [Xin Chen]
   • RPID [Rob Quick] 
   • A Concept towards a FAIR Photovoltaic System [Jan Schweikert]
   • Applying the FAIR DO Concept to a Humanities Use Case [Andreas Pfeil]
4. Collection of “other amazing super-duper application ideas”
5. Summarizing results, defining next steps (10m)

Community data experts, FAIR DO experts, application users, everybody who is interested in FAIR Digital Objects