As a community of researchers on formal ontologies, we would like the artifacts reported in our papers to be increasingly findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable for both humans and computing agents. These artifacts may be an ontology, a logical theory, a methodology, a software, a dataset, among others.
For this reason, we are asking authors to make their research artifacts FAIR by following these guidelines:
- Publish your research artifact in an accessible online location suitable for its type. E.g., ontology repository (e.g., Bioportal, OLS, OBOFoundry, Linked Open Vocabularies), git repository (e.g. GitHub), generic repositories such as Zenodo, Dataverse, FigShare, etc. (FAIR principle A1)
- In many cases, these online repositories provide you with a globally unique and persistent identifier for your artifact. If not, please use available identification services such as PURL.org or W3ID.org to create an identifier for your artifact. (FAIR principle F1)
- Define a license for the reuse of your artifact (FAIR principle R1.1)
If your paper is accepted to the conference, we will assess if it complies with these guidelines (if applicable). If it does not, you will have until the submission of the camera-ready version of your paper to comply.
Then, you will also be asked to fill in a metadata record for your artifacts using one of the following templates (FAIR principles F2, R1.1, R1.2, R1.3):
- Semantic artefacts (vocabularies, ontologies, taxonomies, etc.)
- Datasets
- Other types of research artifacts
The submitted metadata records will be published by us in a FAIR Data Point (a metadata publishing tool) which also fulfills the FAIR principles F4, I1, I2 and I3 for metadata.
If you have any questions about FAIR and how to follow these guidelines, please reach out to our FAIR chairs:
- Luiz Olavo Bonino, l.o.boninodasilvasantos@utwente.nl
- Claudenir M. Fonseca, c.moraisfonseca@utwente.nl