The FAIR for Research Software (FAIR4RS) working group was jointly convened as an RDA WG, FORCE11 WG, and ReSA Taskforce in 2020. The FAIR4RS WG works in recognition of the role that software plays for the advancement of the research sector. https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/fair-research-software-fair4rs-wg The following communications and engamente channels span various platforms in order to reach our wide online community. Most of these are visible to the public, creating an account on such platforms will enable members to provide feedback/comments/editing rights to interact with this Working Group.
To encourage you to learn more about our working group these two short overviews will give you a glance of the work done so far.
- Woodley, Lou, Pratt, Katie, Kobilka, Sara, & Martinez, Paula Andrea. (2021). CSCCE Community Profile: The FAIR for Research Software (FAIR4RS) Working Group. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5019939
- Katz, Daniel S., Barker, Michelle, Chue Hong, Neil P., Castro, Leyla Jael, & Martinez, Paula Andrea. (2021, June 28). The FAIR4RS team: Working together to make research software FAIR. 2021 Collegeville Workshop on Scientific Software - Software Teams (Collegeville2021). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5037157
To ask questions we encourage you to send an email to paula [at] researchsoft [dot] org. This document has been prepared by Paula A. Martinez and reviewed by the Steering Committee.
FAIR4RS: FAIR for Research Software FORCE11: The Future of research communications and e-scholarship RDA: Research Data Alliance ReSA: Research Software Alliance SC: Steering Committee WG: Working Group
To be a member of the FAIR4RS community people only need to declare their interest by joining the group. First, join RDA for free https://www.rd-alliance.org/user/register, then join the group https://www.rd-alliance.org/node/69317 to receive updates (click “Join Group” once logged in).
Group updates are sent via the WG posts https://www.rd-alliance.org/node/69317/posts These posts are public, which means anyone can view them, but only members of RDA can create new posts and comment on posts. The purpose of this public board is to keep the community updated. The FAIR4RS Working group (WG) Steering Committee (SC) sends regular updates. Other RDA WG and Interest Groups (IG) members can also cross-post updates and notifications to the community. Initially, this is a tool for conveying information for members to consume. Nonetheless, we encourage the WG members to feel empowered to contribute to new posts or comment on existing posts about their activities relevant to FAIR4RS and inform the public, ask questions and share resources.
https://github.com/force11/FAIR4RS/blob/master/CommunityEngagement.md This table is public, which means anyone can view it, but only collaborators can edit it*. Here we display relevant events/activities where to present the work of the FAIR4RS working group (WG) to the general community, including links to the presentations (slides, videos, abstracts) when possible. We also look forward to co-organising events with our community members and other groups/organisations. All the members in our community are encouraged to update this list by getting in touch with the Steering committee to add events or activities**.
*Current collaborators are Paula, Dan and Fotis from the Steering Committee. Members can also submit a request to the Steering Committee for permissions to become a collaborator on this repository. **Members are encouraged to send update requests with a Pull Request (PR) or a new issue via GitHub, or contacting the Steering Committee directly.
In addition, the Events tab of the RDA WG https://www.rd-alliance.org/node/69317/events display those WG events organised by the WG to keep the community updated. Usually these events are visible to the members of the working group (the options are: public, visible to only members of the group and visible to selected RDA groups).
https://github.com/force11/FAIR4RS/tree/master/meetings These documents are public, which means anyone can view them, but only collaborators can edit (currently Paula, Dan, Fotis). Here we display general updates relevant to the work of the FAIR4RS WG led by the Steering committee and the community, these meetings are mostly administrative and for strategic planning of future activities.
We use subgroups to do focused work, where members of our community can join to collaborate and co-create with the support of a subgroup leader. Subgroup products can include documents that are co-authored by all or some of the subgroup members. Examples are whitepapers, surveys and blog posts. The initial subgroup work has mostly concluded, and descriptions of the subgroups are on our main page https://www.rd-alliance.org/node/69317 Future subgroups might be convened for future focused work activities.
https://gitter.im/FAIR4RS/community This Community chat is public, which means anyone can view it. It needs a login in order to join and participate in the chat. We encourage the general community to post about their activities relevant to FAIR4RS and inform the public, ask questions and share resources.
https://zenodo.org/communities/fair4rs We recommend to list public documentation in relation to FAIR4RS in the FAIR4RS community on Zenodo. Please Contact the Steering Committee if you know of resources to be listed.
https://www.zotero.org/groups/2501020/fair4rs/library Visible to the public. Only Steering Committee members and guests can edit, or add items to the library. Any working group member can request access to edit the library. Please get in touch with any member of the Steering Committee. Advocating for the community on social media. We encourage all our members to publicly tweet on twitter.com using the hash tag #FAIR4RS in all our related efforts. If the account is public, those tweets will be public to all.