News
– April 2025: Simplified Requirements for Data FDOs published on zenodo
– March 2025: Proceedings of the International FAIR Digital Objects Implementation Summit 2024 are available
– February 2025: Forum re-organisation settled in
– FDOF Website is new and still being improved
– FDOF established an International Advisory Committee
– German government funded a new project with FDOs in the focus
– Plans to create the International FDO Testbed are ongoing
– FDOF is working on statements about FDO security, metadata, etc.
– A White Paper on active FDOs has been published, a paper on FDO Operations has been finished
Events
Open Workshops
Repeating the Internet Success Story
Introducing object-oriented methods to distributed data
Join the FDO Forum to shape the digital transformation
FAIR DOs for a foundational framework for
data interoperability:
Creating a basic Universal Data Language
Standardising how data and metadata
are structured and accessed
Enabling Seamless Data Exchange
Allowing disparate repositories and dataspaces to easily share
and interpret data
Promoting a Robust Data Ecosystem
Facilitating interoperability by making data more
(machine) accessible, understandable, and usable
Gateway to the global integrated dataspace
Simple adaptors enable repository and dataspace
integration without the need to change the internal organisation
Support data protection and sovereignty
by associating FDOs with operations, applying activeFDOs or a layered architecture and include
dataspace technology
FDO Forum Co-Chairs
Christine Kirkpatrick (SDSC, US), Dimitris Koureas (Naturalis, NL),
Sven Bingert (GWDG, DE), George Strawn (Academy, US), Peter Wittenburg (GWDG, DE)