Openness
A criterium for GO FAIR Foundation qualification
As open as possible, as restricted as necessary
As open as possible, as restricted as necessary
Interpretation by the GO FAIR community and adopted by the GO FAIR Foundation
In an ideal world, all data and accompanying services would be open and free. However, in reality we deal with privacy issues, national security issues, commercial interests as well as many other non-commercial reasons to keep data in environments with controlled and restricted access. That is why the GFF strongly supports the principles for accessibility, under well defined conditions. In the spirit of the machine actionability core of FAIR, (virtual) machines should be as well served in terms of Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure (AAI), and understanding the conditions for reuse of data and other digital objects as people.
