@article{ title = {Evaluating FAIR Maturity Through a Scalable, Automated, Community-Governed Framework}, type = {article}, year = {2019}, websites = {https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/05/28/649202}, publisher = {Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory}, id = {eb8c11c4-3bc8-3dcc-ac4d-fbf3fcf87f10}, created = {2019-09-06T09:36:15.372Z}, file_attached = {false}, profile_id = {17c87d5d-2470-32d7-b273-0734a1d9195f}, last_modified = {2019-09-06T09:36:15.372Z}, read = {false}, starred = {false}, authored = {true}, confirmed = {true}, hidden = {false}, citation_key = {Wilkinson649202}, source_type = {article}, private_publication = {false}, abstract = {Transparent evaluations of FAIRness are increasingly required by a wide range of stakeholders, from scientists to publishers, funding agencies and policy makers. We propose a scalable, automatable framework to evaluate digital resources that encompasses measurable indicators, open source tools, and participation guidelines, which come together to accommodate domain relevant community-defined FAIR assessments. The components of the framework are: (1) Maturity Indicators - community-authored specifications that delimit a specific automatically-measurable FAIR behavior; (2) Compliance Tests - small Web apps that test digital resources against individual Maturity Indicators; and (3) the Evaluator, a Web application that registers, assembles, and applies community-relevant sets of Compliance Tests against a digital resource, and provides a detailed report about what a machine \textquotedblleftsees\textquotedblright when it visits that resource. We discuss the technical and social considerations of FAIR assessments, and how this translates to our community-driven infrastructure. We then illustrate how the output of the Evaluator tool can serve as a roadmap to assist data stewards to incrementally and realistically improve the FAIRness of their resources.}, bibtype = {article}, author = {Wilkinson, Mark D and Dumontier, Michel and Sansone, Susanna-Assunta and da Silva Santos, Luiz Olavo Bonino and Prieto, Mario and Batista, Dominique and McQuilton, Peter and Kuhn, Tobias and Rocca-Serra, Philippe and Crosas, Mercè and Schultes, Erik}, doi = {10.1101/649202}, journal = {bioRxiv} }