Initial potential Working Group issues

[cmbarton]

• Accessibility standards: Look at draft FAIR4RS standards by RDA, Force11, and ReSA
• Citation standards
• Peer review
• Badging: harmonize with NISO standards for reproducibility badging. Also look at GO BUILD:GO FAIR

[crvernon]

For the Certification Working Group per the following:

The CWG coordinates collaborative efforts with journals, funding agencies, societies, institutions/labs, other software/modeling consortia, and professional bodies to disseminate and administer OMF standards across the community of modeling science, and to promote recognition of OMF standards.

Start compiling a list of potential journals to collaborate with, or accept as a prerequisite, for badging. E.g., EMS, JOSS, etc.

[epistemographer]

To elaborate on "peer review," in the last meeting there was a discussion of the distinct needs for publication of models as first-order products. Several people felt that the Journal of Open Source Software was a good start, but didn't fully address modeling use cases. A set of guidelines and a reference implementation of a review workflow using JOSS would be a tangible project.

[epistemographer]

Another "best practice" project - guidance for funders of modeling projects. Might depend on the establishment of a certification process for open models, so that funders could just reference standards in proposal and reporting guidelines

[hrajagers]

Draft a list of "grand challenges" associated with the OMF vision?

[platipodium]

Several people felt that the Journal of Open Source Software was a good start, but didn't fully address modeling use cases.

Agree. JOSS is more on software, its documentation, functionality, but not so much on its target-orientation or science context that we require for our models

[epistemographer]

For the Certification Working Group per the following:

The CWG coordinates collaborative efforts with journals, funding agencies, societies, institutions/labs, other software/modeling consortia, and professional bodies to disseminate and administer OMF standards across the community of modeling science, and to promote recognition of OMF standards.

Start compiling a list of potential journals to collaborate with, or accept as a prerequisite, for badging. E.g., EMS, JOSS, etc.

I'd love to see the Certification Working Group developing working prototypes that can implement standards in automated certification tools where possible.

[cmbarton]

Here is a paper that might be of use for the Certification Working Group: https://f1000research.com/articles/10-253

[cmbarton]

For the Certification Working Group

An automated FAIR Data Assessment Tool: https://www.f-uji.net/index.php

This seems still in alpha stage. My one attempt to run this against digitally published FAIR software was a failure.

[cmbarton]

For standards WG:

FAIR Digital Objects: https://fairdo.org/wg/