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26. August 2025 Open Data osguide

Sharing Research Data More Effectively: the FAIR Assessment Tool

The FAIR Assessment Tool is a new tool that has recently been introduced to help assess and improve the FAIRness of published data. This allows you to expand your important know-how for publishing data sets in order to benefit from the advantages of FAIR data, such as greater visibility and impact for your research. The FAIR Assessment Tool helps you make your research data FAIR and publish it. FAIR refers to the Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reusability of a dataset. Designing your research data management in accordance with the FAIR principles can, among other things, increase the visibility and impact […]

23. April 2025 Open Data osguide

Check and Improve Data Quality: With the Open Data Editor no Programming Knowledge is needed

Check data in tables, find errors and publish data seamlessly in just a few steps? The Open Data Editor makes it possible. The Open Source tool requires no programming experience and is accompanied by a free course. How the Open Data Editor works. The Open Data Editor is a free no-code desktop application from the Open Knowledge Foundation. It makes working with data easier, especially for people without a technical background. It can be used to examine tables, detect errors in tables and easily upload data to GitHub, Zenodo and CKAN portals. The application focuses on helping users to find […]

4. June 2024 Open Data osguide

Open data myths: What’s the Truth? (+ Handout)

There are many reservations about the opening of research data. To what extent are they true? A new handout sheds light on the eight most common open data myths. The handout, “Open Data Myths: What’s the Truth?” analyzes a selection of eight widely circulated Open Data caveats. These include misconceptions such as “Others may benefit more from my data than I do” and “Open Data is difficult and time-consuming.” Other myths have centered on the cost of Open Data, interest in one’s own research data, the impact of sharing for research careers, and the fear of losing control. Find out […]

8. April 2024 Open Data osguide

Data Stewards: Support for Research Data Management and Open Data

In recent years, some universities and research institutions have started to appoint data stewards. What exactly is their role and how can they support researchers? In this interview, two data stewards from the University of Basel explain their role and give tips on how to get started. Birgit Knöpfli and Dr Christian Rutzer work as data stewards at the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Basel. This makes them the first point of contact for all researchers at the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Basel when it comes to data management issues. This […]

27. September 2022 Open Data, Tools osguide

Where to Find or Publish Research Data: 10 Years of Re3Data

If you are looking for research data or a suitable repository to publish your research data, Re3Data is a one-stop shop. Now the directory is celebrating its tenth anniversary. We congratulate and show how it helps you select research data repositories. For ten years now, the Registry of Research Data Repositories (Re3data) has been supporting researchers around the world. With entries from all major research data repositories (more than 2,800) across all research disciplines, Re3Data is the most comprehensive source of information on research data repositories. The search and filtering functionalities make the platform as useful for finding published research data […]

30. March 2022 Open Access, Open Data osguide

More Awareness Through Open Research Data: How to Find a FAIR Repository

Would you like to store your research data securely for the long term and make it easy to find on a repository that follows the FAIR principles? But how can you find a FAIR repository? In this blog post a search strategy is described for you. When you use a FAIR data repositor, it facilitates or enables you to make your data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable). This allows you to benefit from many advantages, such as a greater impact of your research. Unfortunately, finding the right repository is not always easy. This is because there is no central […]

24. February 2022 Open Access, Open Data osguide

More Credit Through Open Research Data: how to Recognize a FAIR Repository [Checklist]

If you store your research data in a repository that adheres to the FAIR principles, they will be securely stored and findable for the long term. However, it is usually not possible to tell at first glance whether a repository is actually FAIR. This blog post helps you to check repositories for their FAIRness. A suitable data repository helps to secure or publish your data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable). It can play a central role in making your data more valuable for current and future research, for example, by helping you organise and preserve it for the long […]

25. January 2022 Open Data, Tools Birgit Fingerle

More Impact Through FAIR Research Data: These Tools Check the FAIRness of Your Data

What do the FAIR principles mean in practice and how can they be applied correctly? There are a number of things to consider when preparing FAIR research data. Luckily, you do not have to do everything on your own. Some helpful tools support you. These analyse, for example, how FAIR your data already is and give you practical tips for improvement. If you publish your research data openly, transparently and thus FAIR for third parties, you will benefit from more visibility for your own work – and possibly from higher citation rates as a result. But how can research data […]

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