FAIR data management
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Strengthening FAIR data practices in heritage science: the FAIRMap4ART implementation story
by Ioana Maria Cortea — Published on November 11, 2025 — Reading time: 10 min Part of the INFRA-ART FAIR Journey article series Imagine hundreds of curated, high-quality scientific datasets capturing the unique chemical fingerprints of pigments and other materials found in artworks or archaeological artifacts — all open, yet not machine-actionable. At the INFRA-ART Spectral read more
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The growing trend of open research data policies: big data, big problems?
by Luminița Ghervase — Published on August 18, 2025 — Reading time: 11 min The era of open research data What happens when scientific data becomes wide open – accessible anytime, anywhere, in any form, for anyone, but with petabytes of raw data behind it? Nowadays, we want data – all sorts of data, to be read more
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Is your data FAIR? Tools that help you find out
by Ioana Maria Cortea — Published on July 30, 2025 — Reading time: 12 min Part of the INFRA-ART FAIR Journey article series From principles to practice: the role of FAIR assessment tools In today’s science and tech landscape, sharing data isn’t enough—it needs to be FAIR. The FAIR principles are quickly becoming a cornerstone of read more
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FAIR way forward: building an EOSC-aligned interoperability roadmap for the INFRA-ART Spectral Library
by Ioana Maria Cortea — Published on July 14, 2025 — Reading time: 14 min Part of the INFRA-ART FAIR Journey article series The data interoperability challenge Digital data serve as both the outputs of research and the foundation for new investigations, studies, and educational initiatives. To enable data to be reused in novel ways—often beyond read more
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TRUST-inspiring and FAIR-enabling digital repositories: an implementation story
by Ioana Maria Cortea — Published on June 27, 2025 — Reading time: 11 min Part of the INFRA-ART FAIR Journey article series What is metadata and why is important? Metadata—commonly described as “data about data”—is the structured information that makes datasets findable, understandable, and reusable. According to ISO 11179, metadata is defined as “descriptive data read more
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Turning FAIR principles into practice: a starting guide for researchers
by Ioana Maria Cortea — Published on June 20, 2025 — Reading time: 12 min Building a FAIR research ecosystem In the era of open science, producing data is no longer the end of the research process. For data to live beyond the lab, serve new purposes, and be truly useful to others, it must be read more