Repository of the Actionable FAIR4RS Task Force presentation material for the US-RSE 2025 conference (October 6-8, 2025 in Philadelphia, PA, USA)
This repository contains the material and information associated with our talk and poster presentation at the 3rd Annual Conference of the US Research Software Engineer Associate (US-RSE 2025). We are introducing the Actionable Guidelines for FAIR Research Software (Actionable FAIR4RS) Task Force. The Task Force was initiated in December 2024 under the Research Software Alliance (ReSA). It is aiming to build upon our FAIR Biomedical Research Software (FAIR-BioRS) guidelines and establish actionble guidelines for making any research software FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) in line with the FAIR4RS principles.
Abstract:
The Research Software Alliance (ReSA) has established a Task Force dedicated to translating the FAIR Principles for Research Software (FAIR4RS Principles) into practical, actionable guidelines. Existing field-specific actionable guidelines, such as the FAIR Biomedical Research Software (FAIR-BioRS) guidelines, lack cross-discipline community input. The Actionable Guidelines for FAIR Research Software Task Force, formed in December 2024, brings together a diverse team of researchers and research software developers to address this gap. The Task Force began by analyzing the FAIR4RS Principles, where it identified six key requirement categories: Identifiers, Metadata for software publication and discovery, Standards for inputs/outputs, Qualified references, Metadata for software reuse, and License. To address these requirements, six sub-groups are conducting literature reviews and community outreach to define actionable practices for each category. Some of the challenges include identifying suitable identifiers, archival repositories, metadata standards, and best practices across research domains. This presentation provides an overview of the Task Force, presents its current progress, and outlines opportunities for community involvement. Given the progressive adoption of the FAIR4RS Principles, including by funders, we expect this presentation will provide attendees at USRSE’25 with an understanding of the FAIR4RS Principles and how they can make their software FAIR through actionable, easy-to-follow, and easy-to-implement guidelines being established by our Task Force.
| Type | Title | Date & Time | Authors | Session / Location | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Talk (15 min) | Presenting the Actionable Guidelines for FAIR Research Software Task Force | Monday, October 6, 2025, at 3:15 pm EST | Bhavesh Patel (presenter) et al. | Session: "Publishing and Finding Research Software", Location: Ballroom DE | US-RSE 2025 program |
| Poster | Presenting the Actionable Guidelines for FAIR Research Software Task Force | Monday, October 6, 2025, at 5:30 pm EST | Bhavesh Patel (presenter) et al. | Poster session, Location: Hamilton | US-RSE 2025 program |
Talk:
- USRSE25-Talk-Actionable-FAIR4RS-TF.pdf: slides of our talk, also available on Zenodo at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17268673
- USRSE25-Abtract-Actionable-FAIR4RS-TF.pdf: Long abstract submitted for for our talk.
Poster:
- USRSE25-Poster-Actionable-FAIR4RS-TF.pdf: our poster, also available on Zenodo at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17268692
We list here major resources relevant to our talk and poster.
| Description | Link |
|---|---|
| Page of the Actionable FAIR4RS Task Force | https://www.researchsoft.org/tf-actionable-fair4rs |
| GitHub repository of the Task Force | https://github.com/researchsoft/Actionable-FAIR4RS |
| Website of the Research Software Alliance (ReSA) | https://www.researchsoft.org |
| FAIR Principles | https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.18 |
| FAIR4RS principles | https://doi.org/10.15497/RDA00068 |
| FAIR-BioRS guidelines manuscript | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02463-x |
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