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FAIR Data Steward (FDS)

Role: Data Stewardship Lead FCC Phase: Find Category: Open_science Archetype: The Steward

Overview

Ensures all data assets satisfy the FAIR principles — Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable — by curating metadata, assigning persistent identifiers, and enforcing machine-actionable data management plans across the documentation lifecycle.

Deliverables

  • FAIR Maturity Assessments — Per-principle scoring of Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable compliance
  • Curated Metadata Records — Rich metadata with persistent identifiers and controlled vocabularies
  • Data Management Plans — Machine-actionable plans aligned to institutional and funder policies

Collaboration

  • RC (downstream) — Provides FAIR-assessed metadata for research knowledge base
  • TS (downstream) — Supplies data provenance records for lineage tracking
  • STE (peer) — Coordinates metadata schemas for interoperability
  • GCA (downstream) — Reports FAIR compliance status for governance audit