LIFES
The Leiden Institute for FAIR and Equitable Science (LIFES) is a public-private partnership where FAIR data and services are the norm. LIFES will develop and maintain the required expertise and ecosystem for the equitable and privacy preserving reuse of data and services.
Founding Partners
The founding partners of LIFES represent an international public-private partnership of forward-thinking academic and private organisations that have joined forces to address the challenges of global data reuse.
Vision &
Mission
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Vision: Global, FAIR and Equitable Science and Innovation as the new normal
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Mission: Facilitate FAIR based, privacy preserving, and distributed data generation as well as equitable reuse
Establishing a FAIR-data Ecosystem
LIFES will facilitate an ecosystem where FAIR data generation, privacy preserving data stewardship, and equitable reuse of information are the norm. A radically distributed approach, where data is visited and queried at the source, will be an essential characteristic of this ecosystem. LIFES will serve as a catalyst for removing unnecessary barriers to equitable data visiting for legitimate research questions that meet legal, ethical and consent requirements.
Data remains
at the source
Data is made
machine readable
Data is made
machine visitable
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Data is
reused
LIFES will address the challenges of global data reuse by building a wide and diverse network of public and private members that want to incorporate the principles of FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) and equitable data reuse.
LIFES Scope
LIFES runs a lively members network with regular events and activities and onboarding of new members. For the capability clusters, monthly networking meetings are organised. The communications team coordinates press engagements, events and social media. Each year an annual LIFES conference will be organised to which members have discounted access.
LIFES provides a ready-made consortium for funded research projects to provide FAIR enabling capabilities. These projects may provide opportunities for innovation. The LIFES translational research team spots potential synergies and overlap with services already provided by LIFES members and help bring FAIR innovation to market.
LIFES brokers access to the services of LIFES ASP members (following an additional onboarding process). It detects and helps to fill gaps in the desired overall services portfolio. It will also detect and foster synergy between services and actively promote collaboration and the development of joint (unique) services. In certain cases LIFES may co-fund joint development.
LIFES organises its network of ASPs through a number of portals to provide a coherent offering of training, data stewardship, analytics (FAIR trains / drones / algorithms) and scalable infrastructure. LIFES will take the lead in building a growing depot of pre-approved ‘trains and drones’ enabling a fast, reliable access to pre-defined queries, available through LIFES.