Open license (e.g., Creative Commons, GNU)

OGC RAINBOW is a Web accessible source of information about things (“Concepts”) the OGC defines or that communities ask the OGC to host on their behalf. It applies FAIR principles to the key concepts that underpin interoperability in systems using OGC specifications.

FAIR Connect is an Open Access publishing platform for the development and dissemination of good practices for professional FAIR-Data stewardship.

The FAIRassist tool, part of the FAIRsharing resource offers personalised guidance to discover resources such as data & metadata standards.

The CoreTrustSeal + FAIRenabling Capability Maturity Model was designed so that repositories can self assess their trustworthiness and FAIR enabling status simultaneously, with a view to developing and improving their practice.

The FAIRsFAIR service assessment framework helps users self-assess how well their research data infrastructure services support FAIR data.

Collins, S. P., da Graça Ramos, S., Iyayi, D. et al. (2021). ExPaNDS D3.2 ExPaNDS ontologies v1.0.

A method to expose machine-actionable navigation links that indicate downloadable resources, types and attribution – particularly for scholarly and institutional repositories which use persistent identifiers like DOIs.

RO-Crate has been established as a community effort to practically achieve FAIR packaging of research objects (digital objects like data, methods, software, etc.) with their structured metadata.

The OntoPortal technology allows anyone to set up a semantic artefact catalogue for a domain/project of interest.

Best practices for implementing FAIR vocabularies and ontologies on the web is a set of guidelines for ontology/vocabulary development and publishing.

Open Science Communities (OSC) are places where researchers make their Open and FAIR practices visible and accessible to their peers, e.g. by organising workshop, focus groups, symposia and other forms of peer-to-peer knowledge exchange. 

Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV) is an ontology search and reuse tool designed to help publishers and users of linked data and vocabularies to assess what is available and facilitate reuse.