1st International Conference on FAIR Digital Objects

“Turning the Internet into a meaningful data space”

26-28 October 2022
Leiden, The Netherlands

FDO 2022 Goals

1st International Conference on FAIR Digital Objects We need to act now

We have been living a data revolution for decades now. Every day, peta bytes of information of all kinds are generated and made accessible on the Internet.

The amount of data is indeed so massive and varied that it is not feasible for humans to make sense of it using current processes and standards. What to do then?

We can keep on creating and publishing information but will we manage it, use it, interpret it and exchange it efficiently?

Turning the Internet into a meaningful data space

The FDO2022 Conference is now over. We are pleased to inform you that links are now available to the conference abstract collection in RIO, and presentations, and videos of all sessions. These links are repeated on the FDO Forum landing page, as well as the website's Conference Outcomes page. Please consider reading and signing the Leiden Declaration on FAIR Digital Objects here.

Successful management, exchange and interpretation of knowledge in an ever-growing information tsunami will depend on highly automated methods dealing with combined data. This will require artificial intelligence but also robust and informative ways to store and disseminate data and metadata. Here is where one crucial concept shows up: FAIR Digital Objects (FDOs).

FAIR is about making data findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable both for humans and machines. FAIR digital objects have shown key capabilities to simplify and scale the use of data across domains, increase trust in data and ease the handling of high volumes of information.

The developments are there. Now we need widespread consensus.

The 1st International Conference of FAIR Digital Objects will bring together for the first time at this scale key technical, scientific, industry, and science-policy stakeholders with the aim to boost the development and implementation of FDOs worldwide and transform the Internet into more than just a data space: into a meaningful data space.

FDO2022 GOALS

The 1st International Conference on FAIR Digital Objects will act as a milestone event with the potential of initiating the transformative process of turning FAIR data into reality in a systemic way. For that purpose, it sets four main goals: