Benchmarking KU Leuven's institutional data repository's exposure of information on the repository's trustworthiness

FAIR-enabling and trustworthy data repositories play a central role in making and keeping data FAIR over time. While there is ongoing debate on what constitutes trustworthiness, there is broad agreement that transparency and evidence is essential to enable end users to make informed decisions about the repository services they use. In the scope of FAIR assessment, there are also steps to take in the findability of assessment information, and the exposure of assessment results. FAIR-IMPACT has developed guidelines to improve the transparency of, and trust in, repositories. In this support action successful applicants will have the opportunity to test the guidelines and receive guidance on exposing relevant metadata at the organisational and object level to facilitate discovery, provide context, and support interoperability.

In this support action, participants had the opportunity to learn about these new guidelines in depth, and to critically evaluate them as they applied them to their own repository and stakeholders. Participants considered the current status of information exposure in their organisations and how this could be improved using the guidelines. Through this process, participants provided valuable feedback on how useful, relevant, and realistic the guidelines are, directly shaping the future iterations of the guidelines.

This FAIR Implementation Story outlines the specific aims and actions of KU Leuven in relation to their participation in the support action.