FAIR4RS community consultation May 2021

This public document includes the text and comments of the FAIR4RS principles shared for community consultation in May 2021. It includes: a) the aims of the principles and previous related work; b) notes on how these principles were developed; c) the draft principles; and, d) challenges to implementation and adoption. Files included in this deposit: File 1 .docx with all the comments File 2 .pdf with all the comments File 3 .pdf wording suggestions accepted all other comments deleted This deposit is not a final outcome. It is work in progress. Previous Work This document was open for collaborators to respond to the options and questions posed, propose revisions to the text, or add comments from 17 May 2021 until 30 May 2021. This document is the next iteration of the FAIR4RS Principles developed by the FAIR4RS Working Group between April 2021 to May 2021. The previous document is citable as Katz, Daniel S., Chue Hong, Neil P., Barker, Michelle, & Gruenpeter, Morane. (2021). FAIR4RS WG subgroup community consultation March 2021. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4635410 What happened after this consultation? The feedback received was acted upon to produce a revised version of the document and it was sumitted to RDA for formal Community Review. That version can be cited as follows: Chue Hong, N. P., Katz, D. S., Barker, M., Lamprecht, A.-L., Martinez, C., Psomopoulos, F. E., Harrow, J., Castro, L. J., Gruenpeter, M., Martinez, P. A., Honeyman, T., et al. (2021). FAIR Principles for Research Software (FAIR4RS Principles). Research Data Alliance. DOI: 10.15497/RDA00065Specify grants which have funded this research other than those listed in grants: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant 2021-14116 Wellcome Trust grant 222436/Z/21/