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FIPs can be used as the basis to optimize the reuse of existing FER and to improve data interoperability and cooperation within and between domains.
Pre-made and thoroughly tested FIPs developed by reliable communities have the potential to be widely reused by other communities and significantly speed up the transition to informed FAIR implementations.
How to
Domain specific communities are at the core of creating FIPs (as can be seen in the FIP ontology).
A FIP can be created by answering a set of questions either in the Google spreadsheet FIP mini-questionnaire or in a dedicated version of the online data management platform Data Stewardship Wizard called the FIP Wizard.
For the FIP mini-questionnaire, nothing more is needed than simply creating your own copy and start filling it out. The disadvantage is that although the FIP produced by a mini-questionnaire is perfectly understandable by humans it is less suitable for machines, meaning that further analysis and comparisons between FIPs in mini-questionnaire format will be more difficult.
For the FIP Wizard you need to create an account and go through the FIP Wizard user guide to understand the system and workflow. The FIP Wizard is set up as a question-answer form with both human readable (PDF, Word, Excel, CSV) and machine-actionable (Nanopublicationsnanopublications) output.
Once you have created a community FIP, you can make it discoverable to possible collaborators outside your community by publishing a nanopublication with the template for “Defining a FAIR Implementation Community”. FIPs in nanopublication format can be considered FAIR datasets and are publicly available for reuse via a dedicated online database.
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The European Platform for Neurodegenerative Diseases (EPND) has implemented FIPs and uses them to help make data ready for their data platform.
Further reading
FIP wiki, including the FIP Wizard wizard user guide (Github)
Authors / Contributors
Mijke Jetten
Kristina Hettne
Jolanda Strubel
Sander de Ridder
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