National Offices

The FAIR Office Austria connects stakeholders from research communities and service providers, thus advancing the integration of the FAIR principles in research activities. It supports FAIR knowledge building and sharing of good implementation practices and engages all relevant parties such as research communities, e-infrastructures, Research Funding Organizations (RFOs), Research Performing Organizations (RPOs) and the ministerial level as a facilitator.

Within the general guidelines for involvement in GO FAIR at the country/region level, FAIR Office Austria commits to the following activities:

• Support the GO FAIR International Support & Coordination Office (GFISCO) and coordinate with other national/regional GO FAIR offices

• Facilitate involvement of Austrian stakeholders in GO FAIR Implementation Networks (INs)

• Inform local service providers about existing best practices in the fields of FAIR infrastructures and services (e.g. point to stakeholders who have already undergone repository certification processes)

• Advance automation and machine-operability, e.g. by promoting services like machine-actionable data management plans

• Actively engage in efforts to build a global repository of FAIR implementation profiles, and metadata schemas

• Engage in developing and implementing data stewardship models for Austrian RPOs, graduated to different sizes of the organizations

• Establish a network of FAIR reference points at Austrian RPOs to provide hands-on support to researchers

• Monitor FAIR related activities, data initiatives, infrastructures and services in Austria and thus be a recognized and reliable source of information for official national and international organizations

• Set up structural collaboration where appropriate and possible with national activities of the other three Data Together Partners CODATA, RDA and WDS