FAIR-enabling standards, repositories and policies - How FAIRsharing helps You

Across all disciplines, there are thousands of repositories (databases and knowledge bases), as well as community-developed standards for (the identification, citation and reporting of) digital objects such as datasets, software, and materials. Making the right choice is challenging, but understanding this evolving landscape is essential: standards and repositories are pillars of the FAIR Principles. This workshop introduces FAIRsharing (https://fairsharing.org), a FAIR-enabling resource that is part of ELIXIR data management ecosystem (https://elixir-europe.org/what-we-offer/guidelines/data-management). The workshop is relevant to both biocuration and the African region, a widely adopted, curated, informative and educational resource on standards, interrelated to repositories and policies, across all disciplines. FAIRsharing guides consumers to discover and select these resources with confidence, producers to make their resources more discoverable, more widely adopted, and powers third-party tools by providing trustworthy content to promote standards and databases. This workshop will include a short presentation followed by a hands-on practical session where attendees add African regional content to FAIRsharing. The presentation will provide a high-level introduction to FAIRsharing and also how the assessment/assistance framework is being developed, and why it is important that its content is community vetted. The hands-on portion of the workshop will focus on adding content that will then be accessible to a variety of tools, including those in FAIR assessment/assistance.