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A curated list of awesome stuff around the FAIR principles for (scientific) data, i.e that data is findable, accessable, interoperable and re-usable.

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Provenance tracking

  • AiiDA

    Automated Interactive Infrastructure and Database for Computational Science (AiiDA) to automatically track provenance of simulation workflows and all associated data,

  • awesome-pipelineRelated workflow tools lists

    A curated list of awesome pipeline toolkits inspired by Awesome Sysadmin.

  • Awesome workflow enginesRelated workflow tools lists

    Curated list of awesome open source workflow engines.

  • Computational Data Analysis Workflow SystemsRelated workflow tools lists

    A list of existing workflow systems.

  • CWL

    Domain-agnostic and community-driven open standard for description and execution of research workflows that supports provenance tracking (

  • DataLad

    A free and open-source distributed data management system for everyone. It is based on git-annex with manual to automatic provenance tracking,

Related lists

  • Awesome Curated Tools

    A curated list of digital tools we use, ranging from accounting and data science to scientific research and liquid democracy.

  • Awesome-open-climate-science

    An open science related list specific to the domain of Atmospheric, Ocean, and Climate science.

  • Awesome-open-science-software

    A list of open science resources and software.

  • awesome-research-software-registies

    Awesome list for where one can register or upload research software.

  • awesome-rse

    An awesome list by HIFIS collecting information about research software engineering, touching FAIRness and sustainability.

  • awesome-rse-policies

    An awesome list by HIFIS collecting information about research software engineering policies, touching FAIRness and sustainability.

Ontology services

  • awesome-ontologyRelated semantics lists

    A curated list of ontology things.

  • awesome-semantic-toolsRelated semantics lists

    List of projects related to Ontology engineering and Semantic Web technologies.

  • Ontobee

    A linked ontology data server to support ontology term dereferencing, linkage, query and integration. See also this

  • Ontology Lookup Service

    OLS is a repository for biomedical ontologies that aims to provide a single point of access to the latest ontology versions.

Resources about the FAIR principles

Software and software publications

  • Citable code with Zenodo & GitHub

    Make GitHub repositories citable with Zenodo DOI.

  • CITATION.CFF

    Plain text files with human- and machine-readable citation information for software (and datasets). Supported by GitHub, Zenodo, Zotero.

  • CodeMeta

    Minimal metadata schema for science software and code, in JSON and XML to create a concept vocabulary that can be used to standardize the exchange of software metadata across repositories and organizations.

  • fossology

    Open source license compliance software system and toolkit. You can run license, copyright and export control scans from the command line.

  • HERMES

    A CI based workflow to create and publish software publications to well known repositories.

  • SOMEF

    Extract software publication metadata from README and other docs automatically using ML and other techniques to reduce the amount of boilerplate work for the developer.

Awesome meta data sources

  • CrossRef

    Organization building connections between related entities, building a queryable graph.

  • Microsoft academy graph

    All the data and links from Mircosoft academy (shutdown end of 2021).

  • Openaire graph

    All metadata contained in the openaire graph.

  • Scholix

    A schema for scholarly links. Implemented and deployed by several scholarly link providers.

Metadata formats and standards

  • Data Catalog (DCAT)

    RDF vocabulary designed to facilitate interoperability between data catalogs published on the Web.

  • DataCite

    Metadata schema developed by international community with increasing adoption by repositories.

  • Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Terms

    Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, is a set of fifteen "core" elements for describing resources.

  • HDO - Helmholtz Digitization Ontology

    HMC developed ontology according to OBO principles with covering concept of digital resources and data management.

  • JSON LD Playground

    Convert JSON-LD data between various representations.

  • JSON Schema

    Standard for the description of structural constraints in order to do validation of JSON objects.

Finding datasets and software

  • Datacite commons

    Search through the metadata indexed by Datacite.

  • EuDat B2find

    Search through metadata of datasets accumulated by EuDat.

  • Microsoft academy

    Mircosoft academy search through a pid graph created by microsoft (shutdown end of 2021).

  • OpenAIRE explorer

    Search through the metadata indexed by openaire.

  • Research Software Repository

    Aggregates research software from various sources with information about the problem it solves and its scientific domain.

  • Schole explorer

    A data literature interlinking service (former scholix), indexes links between data and journal publications. It also provides interfaces and APIs to query the graph.

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