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

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Huge congratulations & thanks to our #FAIRsharingCommunityChampions 🥰Together with our in-house team, they have curated and checked every policy-specific field across the entire FAIRsharing policy registry! 🥳 That's >2800 edits across >250 policy records!

Special thanks to #KayBurrows, @lnanderscience, #YojanaGadiya,
@msandstr,
#KellyCobey, #JoyDavidson, #DeboraDrucker and #AdamPartridge

https://blog.fairsharing.org/?p=765

We hope #KayBurrows enjoys her new role at the @roysocchem and we say a great big 🩷THANK YOU🩷 to her: read in her guest blog with us about how she updated a massive **146** records and made **1339** distinct edits during her recent work with us 🥳🤯
https://blog.fairsharing.org/?p=770

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I had a fantastic time yesterday with #KayBurrows as we had a one-day "@fairsharing Retreat in the North", a.k.a. a day physically working together 🎉

Here we are taking a well-earned cake break after a morning discussing the complexities around #FAIR enabling (or otherwise!) #DataPolicies and curating in the #FAIRsharing policy registry. You can find and filter them yourselves at https://fairsharing.org/policies/ or use our Assistant (in beta) at https://assist.fairsharing.org

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