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Allyson Lister

I am the FAIRsharing Community & Curation Coordinator (https://fairsharing.org). In this role, I am responsible for the coordination of the data and metadata content as well as collaborations within our user community and outreach across all research domains. I am also an alumnus of the RDA / EOSC Future Domain Ambassador Programme.
FAIRsharing is about helping research resources such as databases, data standards, and data policies become more findable. We help connect researchers, policymakers, societies, data stewards, librarians and publishers with the resources they need to help make data FAIR and keep it that way.

Annual FAIRsharing Webinar – recording now available
🎥 Our Annual FAIRsharing Webinar for 2026 is now available! https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18336945 This annual update highlights how FAIRsharing continues to evolve as a community-driven, manually curated registry of standards, databases and policies, with rich relationships that support both human and machine use across disciplines. The webinar covers key developments from the past year, including growth of […]
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Date Modified: January 22, 2026
Next TRSP WG meeting – 21 January 2026
Happy New Year! The TRSP WG normally meets on the second Wednesday of each month. We will be meeting one week later this month, meaning our next meeting will be 21 Jan at 1500 UTC. We will send out an updated meeting invitation in the coming days. Best wishes, The TRSP WG Co-Chairs
Group Working Meetings
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Date Modified: January 14, 2026
Partnering with publishers to support a shared culture of responsible data practices
Co-created by academics and over 20 journals from academic and commercial scholarly publishers, the Editorial Reference Handbook informs and assists in-house staff managing the manuscripts to operationalise a set of checks necessary to make the data underlying published research findings more findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable, to underpin reproducibility. This is a socio-technical but also […]
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Date Modified: February 13, 2025
Partnering with publishers to support a shared culture of responsible data practices
Co-created by academics and over 20 journals from academic and commercial scholarly publishers, the Editorial Reference Handbook informs and assists in-house staff managing the manuscripts to operationalise a set of checks necessary to make the data underlying published research findings more findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable, to underpin reproducibility. This is a socio-technical but also […]
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Date Modified: February 13, 2025
Collaboration with RDA FAIRsharing WG
Hi everyone! I just attended the RDA cross-fertilisation workshop this morning and listened to Sarah Berber’s talk on your WG. I think our RDA FAIRsharing WG (https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/group-fairsharing-registry-connecting-data-policies-standards-databases-rda-wg/activity/) could have a really great collaboration with you. As the MOMSI WG (https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/multi-omics-metadata-standards-integration-momsi-wg/activity/) has already done, we would be very happy to help you create a showcase of […]
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Date Modified: December 4, 2024
[RDA FAIRsharing WG] Autumn Update
Dear RDA FAIRsharing WG Community, Thank you for your continued support of FAIRsharing! The three updates below highlight our work throughout 2024. 1. To maximise use of FAIRsharing throughout the scholarly research lifecycle, the RDA FAIRsharing WG continues to collaborate with a number of other RDA groups, and will have a presence at the next […]
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Date Modified: October 16, 2024
Free Training Workshop 27 June 1200-1330 BST: How FAIRsharing helps enable FAIR
📢 Please register to join us for a free workshop on FAIRsharing, supported by ELIXIR-UK!Thursday 27 June 1200-1330 BST“How FAIRsharing helps you enable FAIR: focus on standards, repositories and policies“ https://elixiruknode.org/event/fairsharing-enabling-fair/ Improve your knowledge of standards, repositories, and policies to help your decision-making and other activities related to the FAIR management of all digital research […]
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Date Modified: June 20, 2024
FAIRsharing WG at the RDA22 Plenary
The FAIRsharing Registry WG is represented across seven sessions during the fully-virtual 22nd RDA Plenary, which begins next week. You can find staff and Community Champions throughout the conference, and we hope to see you there – please feel free to get in touch with us either via email at [email protected] or via the Whova […]
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Allyson Lister
Date Modified: May 10, 2024
RDA ‘Decade of Data’ Webinar THIS WEDNESDAY 1300 UTC: Connecting communities to promote FAIR resources: perspectives from an RDA / EOSC Future Domain Ambassador
Dear all, You are very welcome at the upcoming webinar I’ll be giving about community engagement within the research data community from the perspective of my role (over the past 18 months or so) as an RDA / EOSC Future Domain Ambassador. Details as well as registration link below, and see you on Wednesday! All […]
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Date Modified: November 20, 2023