FAIR and CARE Principles 101 (HASS & Indigenous Summer School 2025)

A basic introduction to two sets of principles providing a framework for researchers to manage data. FAIR makes data as open as possible and as closed as necessary, ensuring data are Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. CARE principles respectfully consider how to manage Indigenous data, ensuring Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, Ethics.

Presenter: Simon Musgrave (University of Queensland)

Key Moments
00:01:09 Point 1: Freely sharing data for reuse advances knowledge
00:02:55 FAIR principles
00:09:10 Point 2: FAIR principles guide us in our responsibilities to the scientific community
00:11:09 Access to that community is limited by power imbalances and historical contexts
00:11:14 Point 3: Working with Indigenous data
00:12:03 Including people and purpose through CARE principles
00:13:28 CARE principles
00:18:38 FAIR and CARE in action (Language Data Commons of Australia)
00:24:08 Some questions
00:27:20 Resources
00:27:41 Audience questions

This session was presented at the ARDC HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons Summer School 2025, held at the University of Queensland, Brisbane Australia 4-6 February 2025. The Summer School empowers participants with practical knowledge, helps them build digital skills, and inspires new research outcomes within the humanities, arts, social sciences, and Indigenous fields of study. Participants collaborated in an interactive group setting while networking with like-minded researchers and subject matter experts.

Recorded: 04/02/2025

Further ARDC resources
HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons - https://ardc.edu.au/hass-and-indigeno...
Resources for HASS and Indigenous research - https://ardc.edu.au/researcher/accele...

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