The CREDI Data Archive for Social Sciences in Bosnia and Herzegovina (DASS-BiH), led by its coordinator Amela Kurta, is proud to announce its participation in the FAIR-IMPACT support action. This initiative focuses on developing and implementing Recommendations for trustworthy and FAIR-enabling data repositories. The goal is to enhance the transparency and trust in repositories, ensuring that they can effectively manage and share valuable digital objects.
FAIR-IMPACT is dedicated to creating guidelines that improve how repositories expose relevant metadata at both the organizational and object levels. These guidelines will facilitate discovery, provide necessary context, and support interoperability. By presenting supporting information in a uniform and transparent manner, the initiative aims to build trust in the repositories and the digital objects they manage.
The guidelines and the prototype for implementing them will undergo multiple iterations to ensure they meet the needs of all stakeholders. Community engagement and feedback are critical to this process, ensuring the final outputs are relevant and practical.
Participants in the support action, including our team at DASS-BiH, will have the opportunity to delve deeply into these new guidelines. We will critically evaluate their applicability to our repository and stakeholders, considering how we currently expose information and how it can be improved. This involvement allows us to offer direct feedback on the guidelines’ usefulness, relevance, and feasibility, thus shaping their future development.
We are excited to contribute to this pioneering effort, which promises to advance the trustworthiness and FAIRness of data repositories globally. Through our participation, we aim to enhance our practices and further our commitment to excellence in managing and sharing social science data.
Stay tuned for updates as we embark on this collaborative journey to improve the landscape of data repositories!