FAIR and Open Software

Adehering to the FAIR principles and making the research software Open Source could increment the impact of your research.

To improve the sharing and reuse of research software, more than 500 contributors around the globe worked for two years in the creation of the ‘FAIR Principles for Research Software’ (FAIR4RS). Many of the FAIR Guiding Principles for research data can be directly applied to research software by treating software and data as similar digital research objects. However, specific characteristics of software — such as its executability, composite nature, and continuous evolution and versioning — make it necessary to revise and extend the principles.

Let’s hear from Maurits Kok, one of TU Delft Digital Competence Center research software engineers, how the FAIR principle apply to Research Software and the distinction between FAIR software and open source.

Video recording from TU Delft MOOC Open Science: Sharing Your Research with the World.
Presenter: Dr. Maurits Kok.
Credits: TU Delft Extension School, TU Delft New Media Center, TU Delft Digital Competence Center.
Licence: CC-BY-NC-SA.