Table 1 Overview of FAIR recommendations and their implementation for marine images.

From: Making marine image data FAIR

Recommendation

Description

Implementation

RDA-F1-01M*

Metadata is identified by a persistent identifier

URL:handle@ifdo

RDA-F1-01D*

Data is identified by a persistent identifier

URL:handle@data

RDA-F1-02M*

Metadata is identified by a globally unique identifier

image-set-uuid

RDA-F1-02D*

Data is identified by a globally unique identifier

image-set-uuid

RDA-F2-01M*

Rich metadata is provided to allow discovery

iFDO format

RDA-F3-01M*

Metadata includes the identifier for the data

URL:handle

RDA-F4-01M*

Metadata is offered in a way to be harvested and indexed

iFDO by https

RDA-A1-01M+

Metadata contains info to enable accessing the data

URL:handle@data

RDA-A1-02M*

Metadata can be accessed manually

URL:handle

RDA-A1-02D*

Data can be accessed manually

URL:MAMS

RDA-A1-03M*

Metadata identifier resolves to a metadata record

URL:handle@ifdo

RDA-A1-03D*

Data identifier resolves to a digital object

URL:handle@data

RDA-A1-04M*

Metadata is accessed through standardized protocol

https

RDA-A1-04D*

Data is accessible through standardized protocol

https, nfs, …

RDA-A1-05D+

Data can be accessed automatically

MAMS-API

RDA-A1.1-01 M*

Metadata is accessible through a free protocol

https

RDA-A1.1-01D+

Data is accessible through a free access protocol

https

RDA-A1.2-01D

Data is accessible with authentication and authorization

https

RDA-A2-01M*

Metadata is guaranteed to remain available after data loss

handle system

RDA-I1-01M+

Metadata uses knowledge representation in standard format

iFDO format

RDA-I1-01D+

Data uses knowledge representation in standard format

e.g. jpg, png, mov

RDA-I1-02M+

Metadata uses machine-understandable knowledge representation

yaml

RDA-I1-02D+

Data uses machine-understandable knowledge representation

e.g. jpg, png, mov

RDA-I2-01M+

Metadata uses FAIR-compliant vocabularies

in preparation

RDA-I2-01D

Data uses FAIR-compliant vocabularies

in preparation

RDA-I3-01M+

Metadata includes references to other metadata

ORCID etc.

RDA-I3-01D

Data includes references to other data

image-uuid

RDA-I3-02M

Metadata includes references to other data

image-set-uuid

RDA-I3-02D

Data includes qualified references to other data

N/A for images

RDA-I3-04M

Metadata includes qualified references to other data

N/A for images

RDA-I3-03M+

Metadata includes qualified references to other metadata

iFDO v2.0.0

RDA-R1-01M*

Plurality of accurate and relevant attributes are provided for reuse

iFDO capture & content fields

RDA-R1.1-01 M*

Metadata includes information about the reuse license

iFDO core fields

RDA-R1.1-02 M+

Metadata refers to a standard reuse license

iFDO core fields

RDA-R1.1-03 M+

Metadata refers to a machine-understandable reuse license

iFDO v2.0.0

RDA-R1.2-02 M

Metadata includes cross-community provenance info

iFDO v2.0.0

RDA-R1.2-01 M+

Metadata includes community-specific provenance info

iFDO capture & content fields

RDA-R1.3-01 M*

Metadata complies with a community standard

iFDO file format

RDA-R1.3-01D*

Data complies with a community standard

e.g. jpg, png, mov

RDA-R1.3-03 M*

Metadata uses a machine-understandable standard

yaml

RDA-R1.3-02D

Data uses a machine-understandable standard

e.g. jpg, png, mov

  1. Recommendations are ranked by the RDA as “Essential” (*), “Important” (+) and “Useful”.