Putting FAIR Principles in the Context of Research Information: FAIRness for CRIS and CRIS for FAIRness

Otmane Azeroual, Joachim Schöpfel, Janne Pölönen, Anastasija Nikiforova, Anastasija Nikiforova

2022

Abstract

Digitization in the research domain refers to the increasing integration and analysis of research information in the process of research data management. However, it is not clear whether it is used and, more importantly, whether the data are of sufficient quality, and value and knowledge could be extracted from them. FAIR principles (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, Reusability) represent a promising asset to achieve this. Since their publication, they have rapidly proliferated and have become part of (inter-)national research funding programs. A special feature of the FAIR principles is the emphasis on the legibility, readability, and understandability of data. At the same time, they pose a prerequisite for data for their reliability, trustworthiness, and quality. In this sense, the importance of applying FAIR principles to research information and respective systems such as Current Research Information Systems (CRIS), which is an underrepresented subject for research, is the subject of the paper. Supporting the call for the need for a ”one-stop-shop and register-once-use-many approach”, we argue that CRIS is a key component of the research infrastructure landscape, directly targeted and enabled by operational application and the promotion of FAIR principles. We hypothesize that the improvement of FAIRness is a bidirectional process, where CRIS promotes FAIRness of data and infrastructures, and FAIR principles push further improvements to the underlying CRIS.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Azeroual O., Schöpfel J., Pölönen J. and Nikiforova A. (2022). Putting FAIR Principles in the Context of Research Information: FAIRness for CRIS and CRIS for FAIRness. In Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2022) - Volume 3: KMIS; ISBN 978-989-758-614-9, SciTePress, pages 63-71. DOI: 10.5220/0011548700003335

in Bibtex Style

@conference{kmis22,
author={Otmane Azeroual and Joachim Schöpfel and Janne Pölönen and Anastasija Nikiforova},
title={Putting FAIR Principles in the Context of Research Information: FAIRness for CRIS and CRIS for FAIRness},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2022) - Volume 3: KMIS},
year={2022},
pages={63-71},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011548700003335},
isbn={978-989-758-614-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2022) - Volume 3: KMIS
TI - Putting FAIR Principles in the Context of Research Information: FAIRness for CRIS and CRIS for FAIRness
SN - 978-989-758-614-9
AU - Azeroual O.
AU - Schöpfel J.
AU - Pölönen J.
AU - Nikiforova A.
PY - 2022
SP - 63
EP - 71
DO - 10.5220/0011548700003335
PB - SciTePress