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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear RDM-Community,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The FAIRagro Helpdesk Team published a (current snapshot of) a road map for FAIR research code:
<a href="https://fairagro.net/en/publishing-research-code-fair-a-roadmap/">https://fairagro.net/en/publishing-research-code-fair-a-roadmap/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">“<i>Nowadays, research results are largely generated by self-developed software or code-based scripts. This code is regarded as an integral component of the scientist’s independent research. The FAIR principles (Findable,
Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) have become widespread in recent years since their definition by Wilkinson et al. (2016), especially in the context of research data and its sustainable use. The FAIR availability of code, however, lags behind scientific
publication and research data publication. It therefore makes sense to publish code FAIR, especially in the open access area, so that it can be found and reused in the scientific community on the one hand and its authors receive appropriate “credits” when
it is reused on the other. This document is therefore intended to serve as a kind of roadmap for making FAIR code available. The measures presented should be seen as current recommendations (as at the beginning of 2025).
<b>Things are changing rapidly</b> in this field, and it is questionable which methods/tools/etc. will become standards in the future and which will not be pursued further due to a lack of support from the community</i>.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Beyer, F., Vedder, L., Singson, L. S., Sahwan, W., & Schmidt, M. (2025).
<span lang="EN-GB">Publishing research code FAIR - a roadmap (1.0). Zenodo.<a href="https://zenodo.org/records/14772749">https://zenodo.org/records/14772749</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Wolf<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Barlow SemiBold";mso-fareast-language:DE">Dr. Wolf Zinke<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Barlow;mso-fareast-language:DE">Koordinator Forschungsdatenmanagement<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Barlow;mso-fareast-language:DE">Prorektorat für Forschung & Technologie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Barlow;mso-fareast-language:DE">Otto-von Guericke-Universität Magdeburg<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Barlow;mso-fareast-language:DE">Universitätsplatz 2 / G04-206<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Barlow;mso-fareast-language:DE">39106 Magdeburg<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Barlow;mso-fareast-language:DE">Tel: 0391-67-58541<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#7A003F"><a href="mailto:wolf.zinke@ovgu.de"><span style="color:#7A003F">wolf.zinke@ovgu.de</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Barlow;color:#7A003F;mso-fareast-language:DE"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/wolfzinke"><span style="color:#7A003F">www.linkedin.com/in/wolfzinke</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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