Compilation of Recommendations

Details

Short Title

Rec. 19: Select and prioritise FAIR Digital Objects

Source Documnent

Turning FAIR into reality: Final report and action plan from the European Commission expert group on FAIR data

Source Document Link

http://dx.doi.org/10.2777/1524

Publishing Organisation

European Commision

Date of Publication

2018-11-26

Topic

Capacity building/ incentivisation, Policy

Addressed Stakeholders

research community, data stewards, policy makers, institutions, research funders

Keywords

priorisation, FAIR Digital Object

Text

Research communities and data stewards should develop and implement processes to assist the appraisal and selection of outputs that will be retained for a significant period of time and made FAIR. Action 19.1: Research communities should be encouraged and funded to make concerted efforts to develop and refine appraisal and selection criteria and to improve guidance and processes on what to keep and make FAIR and what not to keep. Action 19.2: The appraisal and selection of research outputs that are likely to have future research value and significance should reference current and past activities and emergent priorities. Established archival principles and the importance of unrepeatable observations of natural and human phenomena should be taken into account. Action 19.3: When data are to be deleted as part of selection and prioritisation efforts, metadata about the data and about the deletion decision should be kept. If data deletion is carried out routinely, the underlying protocols for selection and prioritisation need to be made FAIR.