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Short Description
A FAIR Implementation Profile (FIP) is a collection of FAIR implementation choices made for all FAIR Principles by a community (for example a research project or an institute). It was developed by the GO FAIR Foundation.
Once published, a FIP can be reused by others, thus acting as a recipe for making data FAIR by a community based on agreements and standards within that community. Therefore, a FIP aids in achieving FAIR principle R1.3, which states that "(Meta)data meet domain-relevant community standards."
Why is this step important
In a FIP it is documented which FAIR-enabling resources (FER) were used within a community for each of the FAIR principles. A FER is any digital object that helps to achieve an aspect of FAIRness (for instance ontologies such as the Human Phenotype Ontology and licenses such as CC BY ).
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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.
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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.
Practical Examples from the Community
The Virus Outbreak Data Network (VODAN)-Africa is a joint activity of CODATA, RDA, WDS, and GO FAIR which has implemented FIPs for their VODAN-Africa project.
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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 user guide (Github)
Authors / Contributors
Mijke Jetten
Kristina Hettne
Jolanda Strubel
Sander de Ridder
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