FAIR by design

FAIR-by-design approach is the worldwide Gold-Standard for what concerns public data collection, both in scientific research and in administrative processes.

This talk tries to contextualize the environment in which the FAIR-by-design concept was born by retracing the main stages of what we could address as the “Open Knowledge Movement”, that brought to the definition of Open Data and Open Access.

It is discussed how Open Data have a reason for being only if they satisfy the FAIR principles, and it is explained how to be fully compliant with them implies being collected through a FAIR-by-design approach.

It is also underlined that notwithstanding FAIR Data idea was introduced in tight connection with Open Data one, FAIRness is a broader concept that applies even to Data that are not Open.

Special attention is given to the reason why the only way to have Data fully compliant with FAIR principle is collecting them through a FAIR-by-design pipeline and what this implies for a scientific laboratory.

Speaker: Federica Bazzocchi, RIT – Area Science Park