SCHEDULE

Schedule FAIR Data Stewardship training

Reading Material:

The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship

Cloudy, increasingly FAIR; revisiting the FAIR Data guiding principles

Interoperability and FAIRness through a novel combination of Web technologies

A design framework and exemplar metrics for FAIRness

More resources at the GO FAIR website

Personal Health train video (2.51 minutes)

FAIR Funder Implementation study (4.06 minutes)

DETAILED schedule

Monday
9.00 - 10.30 Block 1. Introduction to FAIR and GO FAIR (trainer Albert Mons)

Topics:

1. The evolution of FAIR and GO FAIR
2. Basics regarding FAIR data
 3. The Internet of FAIR Data and Services
4. The GO FAIR Implementation Networks and Service Provider
consortium
5. The cost and benefits of FAIR: use cases

Objectives:

1. Understand the history and background of FAIR
2. Have a high level overview of the GO FAIR ecosystem and its
stakeholders
3. Develop a perspective on FAIR Data Stewardship as a new profession
4. Understand the context of the FAIR Data Stewardship course

10.30 - 11.00 Coffee/tea break


11.00 - 12.30 Block 1.2. FAIR Data Stewardship a new profession (trainer Albert Mons)

Topics:

1. FAIR Data Stewardship: an Introduction
2. The FAIR Maturity Indicators
3. The 7 canonical steps of FAIRification (FAIRification Process)
4. FAIR Data Stewardship in organizations
5. The FAIR Service Provider Consortium
6. FAIR tooling ecosystem
7. Offering and courses
8. Stakeholder driven implementation
9. Safeguarding of knowledge
10. Data Stewardship roles
11. Benefits of FAIR Data Stewardship

Objectives:

1. Understand the aspects of the FAIR Data Stewardship profession
2. Understand the different FAIR Data Stewardship roles
3. Understand the available resources
4. Be able to (help) set up a FAIR Data Stewardship department

12.30 - 13.30 Lunch break

13.30 - 15.00 Block 1.3 - FAIR Data Stewardship in more detail (trainer Erik Schultes)

Topics:

1. FAIR Data Stewardship the old way
2. Data management versus data stewardship
3. Data stewardship: getting systematic
a. Research and data cycles
b. Data stewardship planning
4. The FAIR principles
a. Principles versus Implementations
b. Reference implementations demonstrating FAIR in action
c. Metadata for Machine Workshops

Objectives:

1. Understand the concepts of FAIR Data Stewardship
2. Learn to approach Data stewardship in a systematic way
3. Be aware of (some) tools and services to help make a FAIR Data
Stewardship Plan
4. Understand the fundamental role of metadata in FAIR
5. Understand the need for machine-actionable metadata templates to
make FAIR widespread.

15.00 - 15.30 Coffee/tea break

15.30 - 17.00 Practicing FAIR data (trainer Erik Schultes)

Topics:
1. FAIR Made Easy (video)
2. The FAIR Funder Implementation Study
3. The FAIR Convergence Matrix: Implementation Choices and
Challenges

Objectives:
1. Understand how a minimal ecosystem of services can help to make
FAIR not only possible…. but easy.
2. Understand the concept of Convergence in the sense of GO FAIR.
3. Understand how emerging best practices can be made available
within the GO FAIR community

Tuesday

9.00 - 10.30 Block 2.1 Introduction to Semantic Interoperability (trainer Luiz Bonino)

Topics:

1. The heterogeneous nature of today's reality;
2. The problem of sharing data;
3. Interoperability through time;
5. What is semantic interoperability?
6. How can semantics improve the current data situation?
7. What is ontology?
8. Types of ontologies
9. Spectrum of knowledge representation approaches

Objectives:

1. Discuss current scenario of complexity and heterogeneity in the data
space;
2. Provide an overview of the evolution of interoperability issues and
their different levels;
6. Discuss the basics of semantic interoperability;
7. Introduce the concept of ontology.
8. Understand the core concepts of ontologies as globally shared
knowledge-structures

10.30 - 11.00 Coffee/tea break

11.00 - 12.30 Block - 2.2 Introduction to Ontology Engineering (trainer Luiz Bonino)

Topics:

1. Ontology adequacy;
2. Types and individuals;
3. Generalisations;
4. Principle of identity;
5. Generalisation sets;
6. Roles;
7. Phases;
8. Formal and material relations;

 Objectives:

1. Introduce the discipline of Ontology Engineering;
2. Motivate how ontologies as conceptual model representations can be
used to describe knowledge;
3. Discuss the relations between a conceptualisation and its model;
4. Understand the difference between types and individuals;
5. Understand the nature of identity;
6. Understand meta-properties of generalisation sets;
7. Understand the concept of roles;
8. Understand the concept of phases;
9. Understand the concepts of formal and material relations.

12.30 - 13.30 Lunch break

13.30 - 15.00 Block 2.3 Semantic Web and Linked Data (1) (trainer Luiz Bonino)

Topics:
1. Word Wide Wide vs Semantic Web
2. Graphs and Linked Data
3. RDF syntaxes
4. SPARQL
4. OWL

Objectives:

1. Understand the difference between the Web of documents and the
Web of concepts (WWW vs Semantic Web)
2. Understand the goals and benefits of the Semantic Web
3. Understand the concept and structure of Linked Data
4. Understand how to create RDF triples and publish data as Linked Data
4. Recognise the various syntaxes of RDF
5. Practice the creation of triples and simple graphs
6. Understand SPARQL, the RDF querying language
7. Practice querying Linked Data using SPARQL
8. Understand the basics of the Web Ontology Language (OWL)

15.00 - 15.30 Coffee/tea break

15.30 - 17.00 Block 2.4 Semantic Web and Linked Data (2) (trainer Luiz Bonino)

Wednesday
9.00 - 10.30 Block 3.1 The FAIR Principles explained (trainer Luiz Bonino)

Topics:

1. All FAIR principles

Objectives:

1. Understand each of the FAIR principles, their original intentions,
motivations and why they are necessary

10.30 - 11.00 Coffee/tea break

11.00 - 12.30 Block 3.2 Towards FAIRness: FAIR Data Stewardship Plans (trainer Luiz
Bonino)

Topics:
1. Data Stewardship/Management
2. Supporting tools for DS/DM
3. DMPs/DSPs vs FAIR principles
4. Main elements of "good" DS


Objectives:
1. Explore the current requirements of data stewardship wizards
2. Understand how each facet of a DSP maps to each FAIR Principle
3. Understand main elements/concern for a good DS
4. Discuss how DS can be applied in organisations

12.30 - 13.30 Lunch break

13.30 - 15.00 Block 3.3 FAIRification process and supporting ecosystem (trainer Luiz
Bonino)



Topics:


1. FAIRification process and its steps
2. Supporting FAIR ecosystem

Objectives:

1. Understand the steps of the FAIRification process
2. Discuss the elements of an ecosystem for supporting operations on
FAIR data

15.00 - 15.30 Coffee/ tea break

15.30 - 17.00 Block 3.4 FAIR Tools - FAIRifier; Cleansing and sculpting data (trainer Luiz
Bonino)

Topics:

1. Data preparation using the FAIRifier
2. Semantic data modeling using the FAIRifier
3. FAIR data publication using the FAIR Data Point
4. Metadata creation using the FAIR Data Point


Objectives:

1. Understand the functionality of the FAIRifier
2. Understand how to do basic data cleansing steps
3. Understand how to do basic data harmonization steps
4. Understands how to split/merge columns when necessary
5. Understand the steps required to cleanse a dataset
6. Understand how to publish data into the FAIR Data Point
7. Understand how to define the FAIR Data Point's metadata

Thursday
Morning topic: Data modeling from-scratch & querying

9.00 - 10-30 Block 4.1 Data modelling from scratch (trainer Mark Wilkinson)

 Topics:

1. Core Ontological Frameworks that are useful for FAIR

2. Considerations for GUIDs - Principle F1
3. Create FAIR data models from-scratch
4. Custom scripting to apply the model
5. “Push” the FAIR data into a server

Core ontological frameworks

Objectives:

1. Understand the different kinds of ontologies (domain, application,
structural, upper)
2. Understand the DCAT and LDP models in some depth

Considerations for GUIDs

Objectives:

1. Where are we going to publish?
2. How can we model GUIDs that are not overly complex within a
domain? Document-fragments
3. What are the consequences of mixing document fragments and root
GUIDs in the context of LDP?

Create semantic model from-scratch

Objectives:

1. Understand a new dataset (dataset of crop pests)
2. build-out a data model from zero
a. ontology lookups
b. what to do with hard cases? Options for extending ontologies

Custom Scripting to apply that model

Objectives:

 1. understand a code walk-through in Ruby
a. understand the general features of RDF code libraries shared
between most programming languages
b. understand the considerations for the Object position, and the
detection of appropriate datatypes in automated conversion
pipelines
2. Understand a data push, using LDP

10.30 - 11-00 Coffee/tea break

11.00 - 12.30 Block 4.2 Introduction to SPARQL and FAIR data (trainer Mark Wilkinson)

Topics:

1. Querying FAIR Data

Objectives:

1. Learn about SPARQL interfaces (Local and Yasgui)
2. Learn the basics of SPARQL using our data push
3. Learn filters
4. Learn “distinct”
5. learn ORDER BY
6. Understand SPARQL over-the-web and SPARQL “locally” on in-
memory datasets

12.30 - 13.30 Lunch break

Afternoon topic: Metadata modeling

13.30 - 15.00 Block 4.3. Metadata modelling principles (trainer Mark Wilkinson)

Topics:

1. The nature and purpose of FAIR metadata

2. Types of Metadata
3. Meta data structures (FAIR Accessors and LDP containers)

Why metadata

 Objectives:

1. Understand the principles are related to both data and metadata
2. Understand the purpose of metadata in FAIR

Types of metadata

Objectives:

1. Understand the 7 types of metadata
2. Know some ontologies relevant to these different types
3. Know which principles are primarily associated with each type

The FAIR Accessor as a Metadata structure

Objectives:

1. Understand the FAIR Accessor data model
2. Understand how this relates to LDP (relates to Core Ontological
Frameworks Block 3.1)
3. Understand how this relates to DCAT (relates to Core Ontological
Frameworks Block 3.1)
4. See the position of the DCAT SKOS Concept Scheme in the FAIR
Accessor


15.00 - 15.30 Coffee/tea break

15.30 - 17.00 Block 4.4 - Interacting with the Linked Data Platform

Topics:

1. Interacting with a FAIR metadata repository (Linked Data Platform in

detail)
2. Create a FAIR metadata record by scripting (SKOS and DCAT)
3. Demonstrate value of FAIR data through a search

 Linked Data Platform in Detail

Objectives:

1. Understand the basic concepts of REST
2. Understand how to create Containers and Resources in LDP from
command-line
3. Decide where our SKOS Concept Scheme will “live” and select it’s URL

Create a SKOS Concept Scheme

Objectives:

1. Understand what a SKOS Concept Scheme is, and its purpose
2. Learn the “SKOS Play” tool for easy conversion of Excel into SKOS

Push metadata

Objectives:

1. POST the SKOS Concept Scheme to an LDP server
2. Push DCAT metadata that refers to that SKOS Scheme
3. Look at code that pushes additional metadata features - note the
features that are critical for FAIR
a. NOTE: we will not add all features at this point - some will be
added after the initial Evaluation step later

SPARQL using Named Graphs

Objectives:

1. Competency in querying over the named graphs representing the
metadata, SKOS, and data layers of the FAIR Accessor

Friday
Morning topic: Measuring FAIRness

9.00 - 10.30 Block 5.1 FAIR Maturity Indicators and their Compliance Tests (trainer
Mark Wilkinson)

Topics:

1. Are we FAIR yet: discuss measuring FAIRness

2. FAIR Maturity Indicators
3. FAIR Maturity Indicator tests

FAIR Maturity Indicators

Objectives:

1. Understand the existing core Maturity Indicators
2. Understand how to design a new MI (use “The 15th Metric” as an
example?)
3. Understand the role of FAIRsharing in MI registration

FAIR Maturity Indicator Tests

Objectives:

1. Understand how the core Maturity Indicator tests work
a. The Harvester
2. Understand how to interact with an MI test directly


10.30 - 11.00 Coffee/tea break

11.00 - 12.30 Block 5.2 FAIR Evaluation and leveraging its output (trainer Mark
Wilkinson)

 Topics:

1. FAIR Maturity Indicator Evaluator (prototype)

2. Evaluate our published FAIR (meta)data record

Evaluation our FAIR Accessor and dataset using The Evaluator

Objectives:

1. Understand how The Evaluator works
2. Learn how to register a new Maturity Indicator Test
3. Learn how to register a Collection of Metrics
4. Learn how to initiate a new Evaluation
5. Learn how to improve your FAIRness score
6. Learn how to create a W3ID .htaccess record

12.30 - 13.30 Lunch break

Afternoon topic: what have we achieved?

13.30 - 15.00 Block 5.3 Dynamic data discovery and query federation

Topics:

1. Leveraging FAIRness - FAIR data is self describing

2. Automated integration of your FAIR data with other people’s FAIR
data

Advanced SPARQL – exploring new datasets and federated query

Objectives:

a) Patterns for exploration
b) Stepping through a complex dataset (EBI)
c) Stepping through a third-party dataset relevant to our sample data
i) food.data.gov website in the UK
d) Understand federated query
e) Consider options for integrating non-SPARQL data sources like LSID.
f) See a more complex federated query, using WikiData

15.00 - 15.30 Coffee/tea break

15.30 - 17.00 Block 5.4 Data Stewardship Plans and addressing Community Challenges

Topics:

1. The FAIR Maturity Indicators (FMI) mapped to DSW