FAIRifying a scholarly publishing service: Methodology based on the OpenEdition’s internal FAIR audit

Abstract

The FAIR principles—findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability—are guidelines to improve the management of digital scholarly resources for both humans and machines. The principles define the characteristics that enable discovery and reuse of data and, more broadly, any type of digital research object (tools, algorithms, workflows, etc.). They assist different research actors (such as researchers, data stewards, service providers) to assess and increase the degree of FAIRness of their data. The barriers to the FAIR principles’ implementation remain low: the principles are concise, domain independent, and high level. The constitutive elements are related, yet separable, and they can be combined in different ways