FAIR and Open Science

Overview

Teaching: 45 min
Exercises: 0 min

Questions

• What is open science

• A new research life cycle?

• FAIR data?

Objectives

• Undersctand the principles of Open Science

• Understand how FAIR data works.

• Understand how FAIR data is organized.

Presentation

Excercise : FAIR data & Open Science

1. What is the difference between FAIR and OPEN data?
2. Check the FAIR Self assessment tool here Think about a dataset you know and run over the assessment
3. What could you do to make your data more FAIR?
4. Is data published through GBIF FAIR?
5. Is all data published by GBIF considered as open data?

SOLUTION

1. FAIR data is not always open, FAIR data is findable and good documented. Open data per definition is not always FAIR. (Just an Excel somewhere on a website is considered as open data)
2. 
3. Publish your data in GBIF or in another open repository like Zenodo
4. YES
5. No, CC-BY-NC is not considered as open data

Presentation

Excercise : Creative commons license chooser

1. Check the Creative commons license chooser
2. Learn how to find an appropriate license for your biodiversity data
3. Is this license alowed for GBIF?
4. Is CC-BY-NC an open data license?

SOLUTION

1. 
2. Check the license chooser
3. The only licenses allowed for GBIF are CC0 ; CC_BY ; and CC_BY_NC
4. CC-BY-NC is not considered as an open data license

Key Points

• Open Science & FAIR data