GFF invites organisations to self assess their FAIRness based on the GO FAIR interpretation of the FAIR guiding principles. This assessment may lead to a FAIR ENOUGH endorsement handed out by the GO FAIR Foundation. Parties that receive the FAIR ENOUGH endorsement have the opportunity to become part of a GO FAIR ENOUGH consortium, however this is not mandatory.
To be eligible for the GO FAIR ENOUGH endorsement label, an organization needs to adhere to these 7 common principles:
- All applications follow and adhere to the FAIR guiding principles (explicitly as defined in https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201618).
- The generic implementation choices leading to a FAIR Implementation Plan or Profile (FIP) are made by, or fully supported by the various players in a data-exchange network.
- Machine readability and actionability is the default, unless (currently) impossible.
- As open as possible as closed as necessary. For instance, not all background software needs to be open source, not all data can be open.
- As distributed as possible as centralized as necessary. Centralization of data in a data-warehouse construction should be avoided as much as possible
- No provider / vendor lock-in (multiple solutions as a goal). Solutions should provide an infrastructure whereby f.i. multiple service suppliers would have the opportunity to build applications or information layers on top of the data. The aim is to avoid a socalled SPOS or SPOP ( a Single Point of Solution or a Single Point of Provider).
- Actively supporting the 3-way approach of having 1) a platform or layer for Meta-Data-Publication, for instance a FAIR DATA POINT (FDP) , FAIR DATA STATION (FDS) or a dedicated meta-data-layer, 2) a Meta-Data-Schema for increasing the interoperability of the data and 3) a FAIR Implementation Profile / Plan indicating the implementation choices, like vocabularies, licenses, agreements, access-controls, RDF requirements, etcetera for the community involved.
If an organization complies with these principles, and would like to receive a GO FAIR ENOUGH endorsement, they can send an email to info@gofairfoundation.org. After receiving an application, GFF will start the endorsement process.