A curated, community-driven registry of databases, standards (metadata, identifiers, formats, terminologies), and data policies relevant to research data, maintained at the University of Oxford with linkage to funders, journals, and standards organisations.

ByCASRAI Editorial Board

· Last updated 10 Jul 2026

Examples

Worked examples

Is an instance
A data-management-plan template suggesting the author identify a FAIRsharing-registered repository for their domain.
Is an instance
A journal's data-deposit policy citing FAIRsharing as the authoritative list of acceptable repositories.

Counter-examples

Looks similar, but isn't

Not an instance
A generic search engine is not FAIRsharing.
Not an instance
An institution's local list of supported repositories is not FAIRsharing.

Editorial commentary

FAIRsharing.org grew out of the earlier BioSharing registry and broadened in scope. Each registered entity (database, standard, policy) is described with metadata about its scope, status, contributors, and relationships to other registered entities, building a connected resource that supports recommendation. FAIRsharing is widely referenced by journals’ instructions to authors and by data management plan templates, providing the controlled list of repositories and standards to which a researcher can be directed.

References

Sansone S.-A. et al., 'FAIRsharing as a community approach to standards, repositories and policies', Nature Biotechnology 37(4), 2019.

Also known as

FAIRsharing · BioSharing

Machine-readable encodings

Use in your systems

JATS XML <role> element

xml

<role vocab="credit"
      vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
      vocab-term="FAIRsharing (concept)"
      vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/fairsharing-concept" />

Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)

json

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "DefinedTerm",
  "@id": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/fairsharing-concept",
  "name": "FAIRsharing (concept)",
  "identifier": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/fairsharing-concept",
  "description": "A curated, community-driven registry of databases, standards (metadata, identifiers, formats, terminologies), and data policies relevant to research data, maintained at the University of Oxford with linkage to funders, journals, and standards organisations.",
  "inDefinedTermSet": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/domain/data-infrastructure#set",
  "url": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/fairsharing-concept",
  "sameAs": [
    "FAIRsharing",
    "BioSharing"
  ],
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "publisher": {
    "@id": "https://casrai.org/#organization"
  },
  "dateModified": "2026-07-10T02:06:21",
  "inLanguage": "en"
}

Referenced across the research world

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