Homepage

Ensuring that your homepage is up to date with us helps the FAIRsharing user community to find your resource and the data/digital objects that might make use of it in alignment with F2: Data are described with rich metadata and F3 Metadata clearly and explicitly include the identifier of the data they describe.

The homepage is mandatory for all FAIRsharing records.

Please also see the general information regarding our minimal curation requirements.

Please add the full URL of the homepage for your resource. Your homepage is the identifier for your resource. If you have a PID of some kind to persistently point to your resource, please use it here. Otherwise, the current URL for your resource should be used. Once accepted, FAIRsharing submissions are given a DOI at the next DOI minting run and, although such DOIs only describe the FAIRsharing record itself, they provide a permanent and stable PID for you to use to reference your resource if it does not have its own.

The homepage URL is not the homepage of the organisation(s) responsible for the resource, but rather the location of the resource itself. The organisation can be added later in the Organisations and Grants section.

For policies, the resource homepage is the URL of the policy document itself. Where this is a PDF, please point to the page from which the PDF is linked. Sometimes, in order to present a complete and coherent picture of a policy, multiple policy documents must be linked. The homepage field only allows for a single url. In such cases, use the primary data policy document URL (or a webpage that provides links to all relevant policy documents) as the homepage. All other relevant policies can be added as Support Links of type 'Other' in the Licences and Support Links tab.

Please note that PDFs are not always the best option for a policy document. They are difficult to automatically translate into other languages and they are opaque to machine actionability. We recommend, especially when the policy is in a language other than English, that it is also made available as a web page; in such a case, please make the webpage URL the homepage. This will allow our curators to automatically translate it in order to check the curation in your policy record. Without this ability, there is a chance that your record may be rejected.

For standards, the resource homepage should be, wherever possible, the URL of the homepage describing/documenting the standard. The direct link to the complete specification of the standard can be added later on, in the Data Processes section. If the only public link is to the specification itself, then this may be used for the homepage URL. However, if this is the case then it may be that this standard is not well-enough developed yet to be accepted as a community standard by FAIRsharing, and your submission may be declined. See Registry Type for more information.

For databases, the resource homepage should be the landing page for the database itself.

For all record types, publications that describe the resource or that should be used to cite the resource can be added in the Publications section.