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Active GO FAIR Implementation Network
<\/strong>Universities and other research performing institutions (RPI) across Europe, and globally, face the challenge of establishing professional, institution-wide research data stewardship and building its related infrastructure. Research \u2018Data Stewardship Competence Centers\u2019 (DSCC) collaborate with the researchers in their institutions to enable better data management and comply with FAIR principles, also to better support open science.<\/p>\r\n

As many of the crucial decisions around data stewardship, including the use of interoperable protocols, standards, formats, and terminology systems will be made within the EU network of these DSCCs, they will also play a key role in the drive towards international convergence for interoperability and reuse of research outputs in open science environments. Next to institutional DSCCs there is a need for consolidation of good practices per domain in supra-institutional DSCCs, national and international. These may also become members of this IN.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

The establishment and running of DSCCs is a collaborative mission within a complex socio-technological environment.\u00a0 Many stakeholders contribute to building the competent DSCCs at universities and other RPI. The most effective and efficient way to build stable institution-wide DSCC is when existing competence centres of universities or RPI collaborate, network and share their accumulated experience, since many of the crucial skills and good practices are generic and would ideally be shared between centres, thus avoiding to operate in isolation and duplicate efforts. In particular, the most difficult and at the same time most important aspects for the establishment of competence centres \u2013 including\u00a0 a cultural change within the universities or research institutions \u2013 should be promoted and facilitated by such networking, through \u201cspeaking with one voice\u201d about the needs for appropriate FAIR-compliant data stewardship being key to enabling open science.<\/p>\r\n

The DSCC IN is composed mainly by individual national DSCC chapters<\/a> that can reflect local setup needs and ensure a functioning network of DSCCs on the national or regional level.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Main objectives and tasks
<\/strong>There are clear and expressed needs for DSCCs in universities and other research and data-intensive institutions, including for instance ministries, public-sector organisations and private companies. A network\/cooperation structure in the form of a GO FAIR Implementation Network (IN) is the key step towards establishing a broader consensus on the requirements for sustainable DSCC infrastructures and on professional data stewardship skills. As is true for any GO FAIR IN, also this one is open to all partners that share our goals and sign up for the GO FAIR Rules of Engagement.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

The overall aim of this IN is networking and establishing pragmatic cooperation, reuse of assets and convergence between national and international DSCCs at universities or other research performing institutions (RPI). The DSCC IN partners are committed to mutual support for continuous and collaborative improvements to RDS services, especially in their implementation of the FAIR principles. Strong emphasis will be put on joint development of skills, requirements, services and the underlying protocols, formats, templates, and standards that will drive interoperability and reuse through practical convergence, especially across geographical and disciplinary borders.<\/p>\r\n

This mutual support and knowledge transfer might contain, for example:<\/p>\r\n