Identifier resolution

The expectations around how an identifier passed to a FAIR metric will be resolved.

FAIRsharing has created a number of FAIR metrics for a variety of communities and use cases. This page outlines how tests implementing these metrics should behave with regards to identifier resolution.

URIs and resolvable identifiers

If the metric states clearly that the identifier must be resolvable (often by stating that it must be a URI), then do not pass eg the 'canonical' form of the identifier, but rather the URI form.

If the metric requires a resolvable identifier, then ensure you are passing a URI of some type. For example, pass https://doi.org/10.25504/FAIRsharing.2abjs5 instead of 10.25504/FAIRsharing.2abjs5

Metadata harvesting and resolution

When any identifier is resolved, FAIRsharing uses the FAIR Champion Harvester library to retrieve metadata in a way consistent with FAIR Champion and OSTrails.