The newly published article on transparent evaluations of FAIRness that is increasingly required by a wide range of stakeholders, from scientists to publishers, funding agencies and policy makers, “Evaluating FAIR maturity through a scalable, automated, community-governed framework”, shed a light on a scalable, automatable framework to evaluate digital resources that encompasses measurable indicators, open source tools, and participation guidelines, which come together to accommodate domain relevant community-defined FAIR assessments. Technical and social considerations of FAIR assessments and how it translates to a community-driven infrastructure are taken into consideration to incrementally and realistically improve the FAIRness of the resources.
M.D. Wilkinson work is supported by the funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the EJP RD COFUND-EJP N° 825575
