FAIR Implementation Profiles (FIP)

FAIR Implementation Profiles (FIPs) serve as a strategic bridge between the high-level FAIR guiding principles and the actual technical choices a community makes to realize them. By creating a FIP, a community explicitly declares which standards (e.g., metadata schemas, persistent identifiers, ontologies) they use for each principle. This facilitates accelerated convergence: Instead of every project reinventing the wheel, communities can reuse existing FIPs from trusted parties. This effectively leads to a common language and technology stack within a domain. By having FIPs in a machine-actionable format (RDF nanopublications), they can be aggregated into a global matrix. This allows for automated analysis of the global FAIR landscape, showing which resources and technologies are the de facto standards worldwide. It also enables automated FAIR assessments. We offer the FIP Wizard that supports communities in completing the questionnaire. It allows users to select and reuse existing FSR descriptions through dropdown menus. When a required resource is missing, users can create a new FAIR description directly in the Wizard. The broader FIP ecosystem ensures that FIPs and FSRs can be easily created, curated, discovered, and queried through services such as FAIR Connect.

Learn more:

• The FIP Wizard: https://fip.fair-wizard.com/

• The FIP Ontology:   https://w3id.org/fair/fip

• FAIR Connect: https://fairconnect.pro/