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).
Until recently most of the conversations and communications about FAIR DOs have been happening between experts, with only a limited number of events (workshops and webinars) targeting researcher and data management audiences at large. To broaden and amplify the efforts to make FAIR DOs a usable and effective part of research data management activities across disciplines, our RDA group has started to work with creating training materials that introduce related concepts and ideas to newcomers.
As part of this initiative, we would like to organise a working meeting session, focussed on better understanding these interested, but not-yet-expert, audiences’ needs for information and knowledge transfer about FDOs. In order to leverage the vast experience and creativity of the participants (usually including many curious newcomers, all most welcome), the session will be very interactive with several breakouts collecting FDO-related questions that should be answered, and starting to sketch out the formats and contents of the most effective training materials and communication channels. We are inviting everyone interested to join us & contribute!
