A tool for assessing alignment of biomedical data repositories with open, FAIR, citation and trustworthy principles.

ABSTRACT: Increasing attention is being paid to the operation of biomedical data repositories in light of efforts to improve how scientific data is handled and made available for the long term. Multiple groups have produced recommendations for functions that biomedical repositories should support, with many using requirements of the FAIR data principles as guidelines. However, FAIR is but one set of principles that has arisen out of the open science community. They are joined by principles governing open science, data citation and trustworthiness, all of which are important aspects for biomedical data repositories to support. Together, these define a framework for data repositories that we call OFCT: Open, FAIR, Citable and Trustworthy. Here we developed an instrument using the open source PolicyMod

SUBMITTER: Murphy F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8270168 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature