The "R" in FAIR

In recent years, many efforts have been made to implement the FAIR principles. While the first three, Findable, Accessible, and Interoperable, have been widely explored, the fourth, Reusable, remains under-investigated.

Existing FAIR assessment tools tend to focus primarily on metadata, rather than the data itself. This project aims to address that gap.

The first objective is to empirically validate formal criteria related to the "Reusable" aspect of FAIR principles.
The second goal is to develop online tutorials on the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) — a standard that has proven its effectiveness in enhancing reusability.
The third objective is to design a metadata curation protocol using Artificial Intelligence (AI). The harmonized metadata will be made available to the research community through a question bank built by the CDSP team.

Each objective corresponds to one of the project's three work packages.

The project started in October 2024 and will run for three years. It is funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR) as part of the  Réso 2024 call for proposals.

Project Impact

This project proposes to generate national and international collaborations through its three innovative work packages, engaging with European experts on the implementation of FAIR principles with DDI.

While experimental, the project delivers innovative tools and forward-looking perspectives for the evolution of data preservation practices.

The Centre for Socio-Political Data (CDSP) acts as scientific coordinator, working in close collaboration with leading organizations renowned for their expertise in data collection and curation: CLOSER UK, The Finish Data Archive (FSD), L'Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (INSERM, Cohorte Constances) et le Centre de documentation de recherche du Centre des sciences sociales HUN-REN (Budapest, Hongrie).

Project Team

Tuomas Alaterä (FSD), Alina Danciu (CDSP, coordinatrice), Jieun Jeong (CDSP), William Feraux (CDSP), Judit Gárdos (HUN-REN), Jon Johnson (CLOSER), Sofiane KAB (INSERM), Lucie Marie (coordinatrice WP 3, CDSP), Malaury Lemaître-Salmon (CDSP), Rebecca Oldroyd (CLOSER).

Scientific and Technical Advisory Board

Halima Bakia, (CASD), Vincent Benoît (INSERM), Lionel Deveaux (Sciences Po), Thomas Dubois (CASD), Emmanuelle Duwez (CDSP), Emiliano Grossman (CDSP), Hayley Mills (CLOSER UK) Oliver Hopt (GESIS), Lynda Kehli (Inist-CNRS), Éva Kovács (Institute for Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences et Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies), Nawale Lamrini (Sciences Po), Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou (médialab, Sciences Po), Amélie Vairelles (Sciences Po).