Information managers with their unique understanding of organizational information can play a major role in creating and maintaining the Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability (FAIR) guiding principles. They can contribute to every aspect of creating and maintaining FAIR data and workflows.
Information managers with their unique understanding of organizational information can play a major role in creating and maintaining the Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability (FAIR) guiding principles. They can contribute to every aspect of creating and maintaining FAIR data and workflows.
Information managers enable users to find relevant information. By consistently applying the right metadata to both internal and external data, they can improve the findability of information. The familiarity of information managers with the information needs of an organization gives them a unique perspective on acquiring and licensing content. This perspective helps them improve the accessibility of data.
Furthermore, information managers enable the de-siloing of data and resources by working with research teams to improve the sharing of information. By enabling the de-siloing of data information managers, improve the interoperability of data, and the increase in the return on investments of content. Besides, their familiarity with negotiating content licenses enables information managers to optimize the value of content investments.
Information managers typically provide organizations with the capability to align data management with FAIR data principles. Furthermore, they can contribute to all the different levels of making data FAIR. Furthermore, information professionals are familiar with metadata—author, source, date, subject terms. This familiarity helps them contribute to building a standardized set of metadata that will enhance the findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability of organizational data.
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