FAIR (data) view on files listings; some suggestions

[Ruud Steltenpool]

Hello,

As I meet too many researchers not having much of a clue about open file formats and the breadth of what they can bring, I came up with a way of helping them in a user-friendly way within the tools they already use. Do you agree that (part of) it would be a welcome improvement to DATAVERSE perhaps?

When you read the few lines of text, you'll understand the ugly drawing
https://github.com/steltenpower/FAIRfilesListing

Looking forward to your views,

Ruud

[Philip Durbin]

Hi Ruud,

I just wanted to point out for others that you also created a GitHub issue in case they prefer to respond there: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/issues/8453

One way that Dataverse tries to help users learn about open formats is by creating an open, plain text, tab-separated version of proprietary formats such as Excel, Stata, and SPSS. The original format is still available, of course, but the idea is that the open format is better for long term preservation. You can learn more about this feature at https://guides.dataverse.org/en/5.9/user/tabulardataingest/ingestprocess.html

By the way, I like the animated gif at https://github.com/rickdkk/fair-file-columns linked from your README. It looks like the FAIR/open formats get a green sticker and the less open ones get orange. Makes sense. Neat idea.

Thanks,

Phil

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