TU/e FAIR Data Clinic Toolkit

About the TU/e FAIR Data Clinic Toolkit

v5.9.0-dev9-public-hotfix1 is the recommended public-facing derivative of the final standalone DEV9 browser application. It supports guided pre-deposit Dataset Content and Reuse Readiness assessment and repository preparation in a combined Researcher and Data Steward workflow.

What the toolkit is for

The toolkit helps researchers identify barriers that can make a research data package difficult for another researcher to understand, interpret, technically use, reuse, professionally review, or prepare for repository deposit.

What it assesses

• research data package structure and relationships between files;
• README and supporting documentation;
• metadata and structured descriptions;
• variables, units, codes, abbreviations, and missing-value conventions;
• methods and provenance;
• file formats and technical usability;
• software, computational dependencies, and execution information;
• rights and access information;
• evidence requiring Data Steward or specialist review; and
• repository-preparation information.

How results should be interpreted

Assessment results are expressed as evidence-based Findings and recommended actions. The toolkit does not calculate an aggregate FAIR score or certify that a research object is FAIR.

Local-first and authority boundaries

The standalone toolkit is local-first. It does not make a live repository connection, handle repository credentials or OAuth, mint or operate on DOIs, transfer research files to a repository, write back to a repository, provide institutional approval, or replace Data Steward, legal, privacy, ethics, information security, intellectual property, repository, or specialist judgment.

4TU.ResearchData preparation

DEV9 includes a deterministic offline 4TU.ResearchData preparation adapter based on a locked target profile. It reports mapped, transformed, unsupported, missing-required, and blocking conditions. This is repository preparation only; it is not submission, repository acceptance, publication, or DOI issuance.

Validation status

The locked DEV9 artifact contains 426/426 passing embedded integrity checks and passed the project's internal software/governance validation chain. These checks establish tested software and governance invariants; they are not empirical validation of assessment accuracy, researcher usability, external endorsement, or institutional approval.

Release and provenance status

fair-raps-researcher-toolkit_5_9_0-dev9.html remains the immutable historical/final standalone baseline for provenance and reproducibility. Its SHA-256 is 3bc3d31600eaccfd37d5a11e171a9276ab0973f57e5608b8aff377b6778a0001.

fair-raps-researcher-toolkit_5_9_0-dev9-public-hotfix1.html is the recommended public-facing standalone artifact. It removes the embedded named-personnel directory identified during public review and replaces the associated directory-specific integrity tests with neutral equivalents while preserving DEV9 assessment semantics, workflow behavior, and repository-preparation boundaries. Its SHA-256 is a4426144597d0b5a36cca7f05674347c3830cc499896f71432f0d552fefe0452.

Successor development

The standalone FAIR Data Clinic development line is closed. Successor development continues separately under RORA - Research Object Readiness and Assessment Platform, which separates institution-neutral assessment behavior from institutional configuration and repository-specific adapters. DEV9 remains an archived and citable standalone baseline rather than being retroactively renamed as RORA.