WorldFAIR (D2.4) Recommendations and framework for FAIR Assessment within (and across) disciplines

"This report presents the WorldFAIR recommendations on FAIR assessment and discusses a framework for FAIR assessment to take into account the practices of scientific disciplines. This report surveys current activity on FAIR assessment tools and highlights some of the issues that have been encountered, particularly in relation to the practices of repositories serving particular research disciplines. 

The report then discusses the purpose of FAIR assessment. After discussing current approaches, we again argue that FAIR assessment should consider community practice and convergence on recognised FAIR standards and technologies. The report then examines means of understanding domain practices. Here we point to the work of the WorldFAIR case studies. Finally, after discussing some of the challenges of FAIR assessment in relation to domain-specific and cross-domain requirements, including those of machine-to-machine interoperability, we present recommendations towards a framework for FAIR assessment, and towards FAIR assessment more broadly."