OSFAIR 2017

DANS is The Netherlands institute for permanent access to digital research resources. In its long-term research data repository it currently preserves more than 36.000 data sets. Complementary to several initiatives to make new data FAIR, DANS is interested in assessing the level of FAIRness of extant data: in its own holdings as well as in other data repositories.Therefore DANS has started working on a practical operationalisation of the FAIR principles.

Research communities and specially research infrastructures are making a concerted effort to homogenize, collect their (meta)data and publish them in the open through community specific data catalogues. This is a good start towards making data FAIR, but how can we ensure availability of domain specific FAIR data and data-analysis services through a common virtual research environment like the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)?