Thanks to everyone running #Biocuration2026! Looking forward to co-running tomorrow's workshop w/ Lyndon, one of our #FAIRsharingCommunityChampions; it's on curating standards, databases & policies in @fairsharing.bsky.social from the African region www.bioinformaticsinstitute.africa/events/tab/6...
Major curation update to @fairsharing.bsky.social 🎉
We've finished curating Object Types across the registry! Search via faceted or advanced search or access it via our API. Datasets are by far in the majority, but documents, images & models are right behind!
🔗 blog.fairsharing.org?p=1126
Our @allysonlister.bsky.social and Susanna-Assunta Sansone have co-authored a blog post with Danny Smith from @ukrepro.bsky.social about creating a common, transparent definition of #FAIR for institutional repositories based on work with @ox.ac.uk's ORA. Find out more at blog.fairsharing.org?p=1118!
Our #OxFOS26 session "Cultivating FAIR data across disciplines" is happening tomorrow 13.00–15.00 GMT! Please join @mattcannontf.bsky.social @becktaylorgrant.bsky.social and all of the people and groups mentioned in the @dri.ie's post below!
openaccess.ox.ac.uk/oxfos
Some power cuts have affected the science area in Oxford from approx. 5am this morning and this has had a knock-on effect on our network. Our IT team are attempting to restore connectivity as soon as possible.
Types and directions of FAIRsharing relationships; just one of the topics covered in this year's webinar. @debsethorpe.bsky.social @gerdos.bsky.social @gabrielpelletier.bsky.social @hughshanahan.bsky.social @kylecopas.bsky.social @lnanderscience.bsky.social @jettenmijke.bsky.social @romaindavid.bsky.social @stephenserjeant.bsky.social
🎥 Our Annual FAIRsharing Webinar for 2026 is now available! doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Learn how our community-curated registry of standards, databases and policies has grown in scope, connectivity and reuse; also, how we support data management, FAIR assessment, policy implementation & more.
We've now completed this work and the system appears to be running nicely. Our IT team continue to work on the cooling problem.
After 10:00 local time we plan to take fairsharing.org offline for a short time for a hardware upgrade. Currently, there is also some network disruption due to cooling fault in our server room. We hope that the disruption will be kept to a minimum.
@gerdos.bsky.social @gabrielpelletier.bsky.social @hughshanahan.bsky.social @kylecopas.bsky.social @lnanderscience.bsky.social @jettenmijke.bsky.social @romaindavid.bsky.social @stephenserjeant.bsky.social
Happy Holidays from FAIRsharing! We'd like to celebrate the 2025 efforts of our maintainers and #FAIRsharingCommunityChampions, welcome our newest Champions and say "until we see you again" to recent alumni. Find out more on them, our 2025 work and our holiday closure at blog.fairsharing.org?p=1086
A jolly, festive image, showing snowflakes upon a blue background. At the top is the logo for FAIRsharing.org (standards ,databases, policies) with the text below saying "happy holidays from the FAIRsharing team".
From the end of today most of our staff will be on holiday and the department closed. Support will be on a best-effort basis until early January. We wish you all a great holiday, and will see you in 2026!
We're back online - thanks for your patience.
Our FAIRsharing application server has stopped responding and we're currently investigating this; the site will be unavailable until this is fixed. Apologies for the inconvenience.
The whole team at #FAIRsharing would like to thank David Tomkins🥇who joined our #FAIRsharingCommunityChampions in 2023 and for a recent short-term contract.
Find out more about David's time with us: blog.fairsharing.org?p=1057 🥳
Take a look at just 1 of the 1000s of edits he performed! ⬇️
Summer holidays are here, and we'll be operating at a reduced capacity from 4 August – 1 September, with significantly reduced capacity from 18-25 August. During this period all support will be on a "best effort" basis.
Blog post:
blog.fairsharing.org?p=1062
We wish you all an enjoyable summer!
And here are all of the alumni Champions we could find to say thank you to! :) @debsethorpe.bsky.social @gabrielpelletier.bsky.social @stephenserjeant.bsky.social
Please let us know if you're on Bluesky and we haven't found you!
Thank you for 3 great years of the #FAIRsharingCommunityChampions!
There are 47 current and alumni Champions to thank. Here's as many current Champions as we could find on Bluesky! @romaindavid.bsky.social @gerdos.bsky.social @hughshanahan.bsky.social @kylecopas.bsky.social @lnanderscience.bsky.social @jettenmijke.bsky.social
🥳 Please join me in celebrating the 3rd birthday of the #FAIRsharingCommunityChampions Programme! Did you know that over the past 3 years our Champions have made nearly 10,000 edits, created over 200 records and updated nearly 1500 records!? They're all amazing!
More at blog.fairsharing.org?p=1020
ELIXIR 2024 Annual Report cover
The ELIXIR annual report highlights the achievements of experts from 22 ELIXIR Nodes including Oxford e-Research Centre’s Data Readiness group. The FAIR Cookbook, @fairsharing.bsky.social & MARS resources feature as core to data management services for the life sciences oerc.ox.ac.uk/news/fairsha...
🙌 A case study from #PathOS project has demonstrated the value and impact of #UniProt, the universal protein resource. 💪 Findings of this case study strengthen the case for sustainable funding for 🌍 global #openscience resources.
Read the news 👉 https://loom.ly/Rcpa8cU
Services are now restored! Thanks for your patience.
Work is still continuing and we hope to hear more later this afternoon.
Unfortunately, some maintenance in our server room has turned out to be more problematic than anticipated. The IT dept. will return to work about 12 hours from now and we hope they will resolve the situation as soon as possible. We apologise for any nuisance caused by this outage.
We're back up again (apologies for the delay) but the service should be considered at risk for the moment. We'll let everyone know if any further issues crop up.
Engineers are on site and working on fixing the cooling issue in the relevant server room. We expect to have more information from them around midday local time (around two hours from now).
a cat attempting to relax.
SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: Please note that power has gone off to part of the network at @ox.ac.uk due to overheating. @fairsharing.bsky.social is currently unavailable as a result. IT is working on it and we will let you know when it is back up and running.
Perhaps a short cat nap is in order.
Read about the MOMSI WG dashboard and @fairsharing.bsky.social collection at fairsharing.org/5742 incl ~200 Omics standards!
Congrats on these results to all in the WG with a special mention to the #FAIRsharingCommunityChampions and WG co-chair @lnanderscience.bsky.social 🥳
Join the OSTrails Interoperability Webinar Series – 3 sessions on making DMPs, SKGs & FAIR assessment smarter, connected, and actionable!
April 28 - 30 | 11:00 - 12:00 CEST
Registration & Info: ostrails.eu/events
#OSTrails #OpenScience #DMP #SKG #FAIR #Interoperability
📢Come to this webinar on 15 April and see what #OSTrails is up to! @fairsharing.bsky.social is a member of this project and this webinar will introduce you to all of the exciting work @ostrails.bsky.social is doing 🎆
Our @allysonlister.bsky.social contributed to @elixiruknode.org's #IWD2025 post today, together with #WendiBacon - please take a look! And if you look closely, you'll also see our #SusannaSansone there too!
Happy #IWD2025!
13 is our lucky number today! 🐈⬛ There's an update to the Editorial Reference Handbook!
We now have 13 checks ✔️ covering reproducibility of digital research objects in manuscript submissions.
🔗Learn more: publishers.fairassist.org