Research Ideas and Outcomes :
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Corresponding author: Carlos Martinez-Ortiz (carlos.martinezortiz@gmail.com)
Received: 27 Sep 2022 | Published: 12 Oct 2022
© 2022 Carlos Martinez-Ortiz, Carole Goble, Daniel Katz, Tom Honeyman, Paula Martinez, Michelle Barker, Leyla Jael Castro, Neil Chue Hong, Morane Gruenpeter, Jennifer Harrow, Anna-Lena Lamprecht, Fotis Psomopoulos
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Martinez-Ortiz C, Goble C, Katz DS, Honeyman T, Martinez PA, Barker M, Castro LJ, Chue Hong N, Gruenpeter M, Harrow J, Lamprecht A-L, Psomopoulos FE (2022) How does software fit into the FDO landscape? Research Ideas and Outcomes 8: e95724. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.8.e95724
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In academic research virtually every field has increased its use of digital and computational technology, leading to new scientific discoveries, and this trend is likely to continue. Reliable and efficient scholarly research requires researchers to be able to validate and extend previously generated research results. In the digital era, this implies that digital objects
The FDO framework
Different classes of digital objects have different intrinsic properties and ways to relate to other DOs. This means that while they, in principle, are subject to the high-level FAIR principles, there are also differences depending on their type and properties, requiring an adaptation so FAIR implementations are more aligned to the digital object itself. This holds true in particular to software. Software has intrinsic properties (executability, composite nature, development practices, continuous evolution and versioning, and packaging and distribution) and specific needs that must be considered by the FDO framework. For example, open source software is typically developed in the open on social coding platforms, where releases are distributed through package management systems, unlike data that is typically published in archival repositories. These social coding platforms do not provide long term archiving, permanent identifiers, or metadata, and package management systems, while somewhat better, similarly do not make a commitment to long term archiving, do not use identifiers that fit the scholarly publication system well, and provide metadata that may be missing key elements. The FAIR for research software (FAIR4RS,
In this presentation we will highlight the importance of software for the FAIR landscape and why different (but related) FAIR principles are needed for software (vs those originally developed for data). Our goal here is to contribute to building an FDO landscape together, where we consider all different types of digital objects that are essential in today's research, and we are enthusiastic about contributing our expertise on research software in helping shape this landscape.
research software, FAIR software, FAIR4RS
Carlos Martinez-Ortiz
First International Conference on FAIR Digital Objects, presentation