The Library of the CAS, provides access to the AV CR FAIR Wizard service for anyone interested from the CAS. FAIR Wizard is an online service for easy creation of a data management plan (DMP) – it is a stand-alone instance of the open source tool Data Stewardship Wizard operated by Codevence Solutions, s.r.o.
This tool automatically assesses the degree of fulfilment of the FAIR Principles and other metrics during completion, with accompanying explanatory comments from, for example, the review publication MONS, B. Data stewardship for open science: implementing FAIR principles. Boca Raton: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2018], ISBN 978-1-4987-5317-3. Individual topic chapters from the Research Data Management Kit (RDMkit) are also linked to the questions.
Most of the questions are thus linked to external resources, explaining in detail their specific purpose and the rationale for their relationship to good data management. The user is thus “guided” in the creation of the DMP and through the prevalent questions with predefined answer choices and is freed from having to “write” another appendix to the project documentation.
It is also possible to develop pre-populated templates in the tool to facilitate the creation of other DMPs at the same institution, research team or research facility. The system of closed questions (selection from predefined answers) and the link to standards such as FAIRsharing.org, in addition to the above, also allows for future easy evaluation of completed DMPs and therefore optimization of internal processes.
We are currently updating the user guide for the AV CRFAIR Wizard, and a new version will be available here soon.
In the meantime, you can use the official FAIR Wizard User Guide or the user guide for the FAIR Wizard instance at Charles University.
