Published August 28, 2024 | Version 1.0
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Ten Principles to Improve Dataset Discoverability

Description

The FAIR (meta) data principles provide overarching guidelines to make metadata and data

Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. While significant effort has been

dedicated to specific recommendations that enable best practices in implementing FAIR

principles, particularly from a data curation perspective, this document focuses primarily on

enhancing the discoverability of data from the perspectives of data searchers and data

users, including both human users and machine-based systems.

The document outlines ten principles, along with practical implementation recommendations

for each principle, for improving dataset discoverability. The ten principles and

recommendations are not confined to a singular community. Instead, they are applicable

across a spectrum of communities since providing a data discovery service and good data

discovery experience involves a shared responsibility among various stakeholders.

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Dates

Accepted
2024-08-28