FAIR already? Principles of reusability and research output – evaluation at a national level

Abstract

The Swedish government gave the Swedish Research Council and the National Library of Sweden parallel assignments to propose criteria and a method for assessing how well research data and scholarly publications produced at Swedish organizations fulfil the FAIR principles. This is in line with the on-going work in the European Union regarding implementation of FAIR. This talk will focus on evaluation at a national level, our recommendations and the possibilities and caveats we have identified during our work. We propose a method based on collecting and evaluating metadata. This will affect the infrastructure handling metadata for research data and scholarly publications.