This Focus Group aims to implement FAIR principles in training (FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable). The groups contains members from ELIXIR and from the international community.
Goals of the group
Train scientists how to implement FAIR principles
Task Force 1 will assemble courses, course materials, and curricula in order to teach FAIR principles.
Leaders
Fotis Psomopoulos
(ELIXIR Greece)Celia van Gelder
(ELIXIR Netherlands)FAIRify training materials and courses
Task Force 2 will develop FAIR metrics for training resources and evaluate ELIXIR training resources according to these metrics. It will improve the FAIRness of existing resources and make training more findable in TeSS, ELIXIR's registry of training courses and materials.
Leaders
Melissa Burke
(Australian BioCommons)Victoria Dominguez
(ELIXIR France)
Outcomes of the group
- Publications: a notable outcome of this WG is the recently published “Ten simple rules for making training materials FAIR”.
- Webinar: "Ten simple rules for making training materials FAIR" by Patricia Palagi and Leyla Garcia
- Posters: presented at ISMB 2019 and 2020. https://f1000research.com/posters/9-920, https://f1000research.com/posters/8-1083, https://f1000research.com/posters/8-856
Mailing List
fair-training [at] elixir-europe.org
Group chairs

(ELIXIR Greece)

(ELIXIR Hub)