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FAIR Guiding Principles (2016)

Reference

Citation: Wilkinson, M. D. et al. "The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship." Scientific Data 3, 160018 (2016). Type: standard. Link: doi:10.1038/sdata.2016.18.

What it is

A set of principles for making data findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable by machines as well as people. Machine-actionability is the founding motivation.

Role in the record

  • Grounds BP02: machine-actionability as the general goal behind default agent-accessibility. The Accessible principle permits authentication, so "accessible" never meant "open without limit".
  • Grounds BP05: documentation and metadata as an interface machines operate from.

Atom-level for/against detail and quotes are in the provenance data (assets/provenance.yml), keyed by practice atom.

Discussion