A Taxonomy of Tools and Approaches for FAIRification

Datasets accompanying the study “A Taxonomy of Tools and Approaches for FAIRification” on the tools and approaches emerging from stakeholders’ experiences adopting the FAIR principles in practice.

Datasets:

queryResults.csv

Description

The dataset consists of the query results returned by OpenAIRE Explore and defines the corpus at the base of our study.

Structure

11 columns:

Query

Type of query entered

FAIR, FAIRification (all fields)

OpenAIRE subjects (subject)

Result Type [OpenAIRE label]

Type of the research output (publication|data|software|other)

Title [OpenAIRE label]

Authors [OpenAIRE label]

Publication Year [OpenAIRE label]

DOI [OpenAIRE label]

Download from [OpenAIRE label]

Type [OpenAIRE label]

Subtype of the research output

Journal [OpenAIRE label]

Funder|Project Name (GA Number) [OpenAIRE label]

Access [OpenAIRE label]

Access rights

publicationsTools.csv

Description

The dataset pairs the tools/services extracted from the corpus to their respective source.

Structure

2 columns:

source

reference to the publication or software citation

name

name of the tool/service/technology

toolsAll.csv

Description

The dataset lists all the unique tool/service entries, distinguishing between those that were considered relevant for the study (further categorised into tools, technologies or services) and those that were excluded.

Structure

3 columns:

entryType

entry categorisation (tool|service|technology|excluded)

name

name of the tool/service/technology

URL

URL of the tool/service web page or description

toolsType.csv

Description

Classification of the tools/services/technologies into the study-defined classes.

Structure

19 columns:

name

name of the tool/service/technology

URL

URL of the tool/service web page or description

GUPRI helper - GUPRI creation and management service

‘class - subclass’ of the tool/service/technology

GUPRI helper -  GUPRI Indexing and discovery service

‘class - subclass’ of the tool/service/technology

Metadata helper - Metadata editor

‘class - subclass’ of the tool/service/technology

Metadata helper - Metadata extractor

‘class - subclass’ of the tool/service/technology

Metadata helper - Metadata tracker

‘class - subclass’ of the tool/service/technology

Metadata helper - Metadata validator

‘class - subclass’ of the tool/service/technology

Metadata helper - Metadata assistant

‘class - subclass’ of the tool/service/technology

Indexing and discovery service - registry

‘class - subclass’ of the tool/service/technology

Indexing and discovery service - repository

‘class - subclass’ of the tool/service/technology

Indexing and discovery service - Indexing and discovery service finder

‘class - subclass’ of the tool/service/technology

Converter - metadata

‘class - subclass’ of the tool/service/technology

Converter - data

‘class - subclass’ of the tool/service/technology

Licence helper

‘class’ of the tool/service/technology

Assessment tool - automated

‘class - subclass’ of the tool/service/technology

Assessment tool - manual

‘class - subclass’ of the tool/service/technology

Assessment tool - Assessment tool finder

‘class - subclass’ of the tool/service/technology

DMP tool

‘class’ of the tool/service/technology

toolsFAIR.csv

Description

The dataset relates the tool/service/technology to the FAIR principles it enables.

Structure

12 columns:

name

name of the tool/service/technology

URL

URL of the tool/service web page or description

F1

reference to the FAIR principle

F2

reference to the FAIR principle

F3

reference to the FAIR principle

F4

reference to the FAIR principle

A

generic reference to the accessibility principles (see the paper)

I1

reference to the FAIR principle

I3

reference to the FAIR principle

R1.1

reference to the FAIR principle

R1.2

reference to the FAIR principle

R1.3

reference to the FAIR principle

toolsScope.csv

Description

Since the FAIR principles have been specified for different types of resources ((meta)data, semantic artefacts, software and workflows), the dataset correlates the tool/service/technology and the types of FAIR-specific resources it covers.

Structure

6 columns:

name

name of the tool/service/technology

URL

URL of the tool/service web page or description

(meta)data

reference to the FAIR-specific resource

semantic artefact

reference to the FAIR-specific resource

software

reference to the FAIR-specific resource

workflow

reference to the FAIR-specific resource

toolsDomain.csv

Description

Classification of the tools/services/technologies into the Frascati framework-defined domains.

Structure

9 columns:

name

name of the tool/service/technology

URL

URL of the tool/service web page or description

cross-domain

domain

Agricultural and veterinary sciences

domain

Engineering and technology

domain

Humanities and the arts

domain

Medical and health sciences

domain

Natural sciences

domain

Social sciences

domain