inclusion of FAIR principles

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The National Data Strategy talks about data foundations: ensuring data is fit for purpose and that this means that data is findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR principles). We in data standards team at Scottish Government agree that this is important for data innovation in the public sector and that data standards can help to do this. We would like to help public sector make their data more FAIR by pointing them to data standards they can use that will help do this. This includes pointing them to some of the great standards promoted by the DSA. For example, using schema.org metadata standards when publishing data will help make the data more findable and interoperable.

We want to be able to point public sector to your data catalogue to make use of the standards, but it would help if the catalogue included content on FAIR and ideally mapped standards to the different FAIR components. For example, using Findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable as subject headings underneath which, different standards fall, may be an option. I raised this in a meeting between the DSA (representative present: Terence) and the Data Standards team at Scottish Government on the 23th of June 2021. Terence advised that I could raise the suggestion through an issue here for consideration. We are happy to discuss this further to see if it might be appropriate and feasible.