Happy Holidays and Happy New Year from @fairsharing! As we move into 2026, I'd like to celebrate the work of our #FAIRsharing maintainers and #FAIRsharingCommunityChampions over the last year, welcome our newest Champions and say "until we see you again" to our newest alumni. Find out more about them, about our work in 2025, and about our holiday closure at https://blog.fairsharing.org/?p=1086

A particular congratulations to @lnanderscience from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for being our Top Contributor for the third year running 🥳

In 2025, our 🧡 Champions 🧡 made nearly 3000 record edits, updated 502 records and added 55 new records. Averaged over the year, that’s more than 55 edits, 9 updated records and 1 new record each week!

We would also like to congratulate our 💚 Maintainer 💚 community; they are the resource managers who create and update their records with us, making sure that their content is represented fully and accurately within our registries! 345 of our maintainers made nearly 3500 edits this year on 553 records. Averaged over the year, that's more than 66 edits and 10 updated records each week!

Thank you to our entire community of users, maintainers and resource managers, tool developers, collaborators and community champions. We look forward to working more with you in 2026!

HT our current Mastodon Champions, @kylecopas
@msandstr and
@RomainD @lnanderscience as well as our alumni @neuropelletier
@GenevievMichaud
@glyg
@stephenserjeant

The whole team at @fairsharing would like to thank David Tomkins for his recent 3-month contract with us as a curator. 🥇 David joined our #FAIRsharingCommunityChampions programme back in 2023 joined us for some targeted curation over the past few months; every time a manually-curated database like FAIRsharing adds a new field to our record schema, it’s not just *future* records that are curated as they are created. *Every single one* of the thousands of older records need re-curating with that new field. David has provided a targeted reviewed 1000s of records as part of the recent addition of object types to FAIRsharing. He's reviewed all of the database registry and, together with our team, has also reviewed our standards registry. All of his database updates are in FAIRsharing now, with his standards updates to follow in the coming weeks.

Find out more about David's time with us in a blog post he has authored: https://blog.fairsharing.org/?p=1057

Wonder if your database record has a new object type yet? Why not head over to FAIRsharing and take a look?! The image below is just one of 1000s of edits David has done as part of this work 🥳

FAIRsharing: https://fairsharing.org/

Learn more about object types: https://blog.fairsharing.org/?p=1051

🥳 Please join me in celebrating the 3rd birthday of the #FAIRsharingCommunityChampions Programme! Did you know that over the past 3 years our Champions have made nearly 10,000 edits, created over 200 records and updated nearly 1500 records!? They're all amazing!

Take a moment and read our blog post (https://blog.fairsharing.org/?p=1020) celebrating just a few of the ways in which our 30 current and 17 alumni Champions have enriched @fairsharing content while also gaining attribution, expertise and networking.
@kylecopas @debsethorpe @neuropelletier @msandstr @GenevievMichaud @stephenserjeant @lnanderscience @glyg @bethknazook @RomainD

Read about the #RDA #MOMSI WG dashboard and
@fairsharing collection at https://fairsharing.org/5742 including almost 200 Omics standards!

@resdatall blog post at https://www.rd-alliance.org/news/introducing-the-momsi-landscape-dashboard-a-tool-for-mapping-multi-omics-standards/

Congrats on these results to all in the WG with a special mention to the #FAIRsharingCommunityChampions and WG co-chair
@lnanderscience 🥳

As we start 2025, we welcome an updated group of #UniversityofOxford #FAIRsharingCommunityChampions! Champions come from Bodleian Libraries, IT services, and Medical Sciences.

Find out more at https://blog.fairsharing.org/?p=964
Learn about our Champions Programme at https://fairsharing.org/community_champions

Our #FAIRsharingCommunityChampions #MarkMcKerracher has created a short video "Data tips: #FAIR principles in 60 seconds" as part of his work at the SDS repository at #UniversityofOxford, where he also recommends @fairsharing

Take a look at https://doi.org/10.25446/oxford.28323506.v2, and at the entire series of videos is available at https://portal.sds.ox.ac.uk/SDS_self_help

See also https://fairsharing.org/educational#fair

#FAIRprinciples

Happy New Year! As we move into 2025, I'd like to celebrate the work of our @fairsharing maintainers and #FAIRsharingCommunityChampions over the last year, and welcome our newest Champions :-)

Firstly, a particular congratulations to @lnanderscience and #KayBurrows for being our Top Contributors for 2024!

In 2024, our Champions made over 2100 edits, updated 325 records and added 64 new records. Averaged over the year, that’s more than 40 edits, 6 updated records and 1 new record each week! Additionally, 241 maintainers (many of whom visited their record multiple times) made over 2000 edits.

Our focus over the past year was on updating all records in the #policy and #database registries, which is consistent with the large increases you see in updated records in 2024 in the image below. Collaborations also helped increase our coverage, such as the one with #JoyDavidson from the DCC, who led a @fairimpact_eu support action which added both more European institutional and funder policies to our registry but also Champions to our programme (such as #ClaraParenteBoavida).

We have many exciting things planned for 2025 with and for our community, including (but not limited to) our work with our TIER2 Project and OSTrails colleagues!

Do you have a thought about how #FAIRsharing could help your community? Please get in touch with us!

For more information please also see https://blog.fairsharing.org/?p=927

#FAIR