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1. Which one of these is not a core aspect of FAIR?

  • Findable
  • Accessible
  • Identifiable
  • Reusable

2. Which of these are drivers of the FAIR guiding principles? Select all that apply

  • To reduce the duplication of effort in producing research data
  • To make it easier to verify the results of research
  • To allow research data from different sources to be combined for new discoveries
  • To extract the maximum benefit from research investment
  • To make data easier to use for humans
  • To make data easier to use for machines
  • To make sensitive data openly accessible
  • To force researchers to share research data

3. In which discipline-focussed data repository can you find the data for Andrei Korostelev et al. (2007)?

Interactions and dynamics of the Shine–Dalgarno helix in the 70S ribosome, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104 (43) 16840-16843; DOI:10.1073/pnas.0707850104?

  • GenBank
  • Protein Databank
  • AuScope Discovery Portal
  • Astrophysics Data System
  • ICPSR

4. What role does the ARDC take in enabling FAIR data? (select all that apply)

  • Creates metadata for all Australian research data
  • Facilitates Australian input in the development of international standards
  • Provides infrastructure and services for Australian research organisations
  • Trains researchers in FAIR data practices
  • Partners with Australian research organisations on FAIR data projects
  • Operates a national Australian data repository

5. What qualities of identifiers do the FAIR principles recommend? (Select all that apply)

  • Continue to operate indefinitely
  • Unambiguously identify data and metadata
  • Continue to operate for the foreseeable future
  • Take the form of hyperlinks

For each of the components of the research lifecycle in questions 6-10, select the most appropriate persistent identifier (PID):

6. What is the most appropriate PID for Professor Fatima Mohamed?

  • ORCiD
  • Handle
  • IGSN
  • RAiD
  • DOI

7. What is the most appropriate PID for the Kepler Space Telescope?

  • ORCiD
  • Handle
  • IGSN
  • RAiD
  • DOI

8. What is the most appropriate PID for a meteorite discovered in the Eyre Basin?

  • ORCiD
  • Handle
  • IGSN
  • RAiD
  • DOI

9. What is the most appropriate PID for a research project to investigate the Galactic Centre?

  • ORCiD
  • Handle
  • IGSN
  • RAiD
  • DOI

10. What is the most appropriate PID for data resulting from the analysis of a mineral sample from the Yilgarn Craton?

  • ORCiD
  • Handle
  • IGSN
  • RAiD
  • DOI

11. Which of the following identifier services does the ARDC provide?

  • Handle
  • DOI
  • RAiD
  • IGSN
  • ORCiD

12. Which is the most complete metadata record?

13. How can data repositories enable FAIR data?

  • Paying researchers to deposit their data
  • Using persistent identifiers
  • Pursuing CORE Trust Seal certification to become a Trusted Data Repository
  • Facilitating access to data
  • Preserving and providing long term access to data
  • Using community agreed metadata standards
  • Assisting data depositors to provide rich metadata
  • Enabling a wide variety of data description practices

14. Which of the following repositories is the odd one out?

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