News
– Registration is now open for the FDO Conference 2026; March 25th -27th, Vienna, Austria, https://fairdo.org/fdo-conference-2026-registration/
– July 2025: Bob Kahn retired as chair of the DONA Foundation, Ed Pentz (chair), Xihui Zhen (Vice Chair), Bob Kahn (Chair Emeritus)
– June 2025: Erik Schultes is new FDOF Executive Board member
– May 2025: a set of FDO Memos has been finalised (see here)
– May 2025: a template for FDO Compliance Profiles can now be used (see here)
– April 2025: Simplified Requirements for Data FDOs published on zenodo
– March 2025: Proceedings of the International FAIR Digital Objects Implementation Summit 2024 are available
– April 2025: A Paper on FDO Operations has been published (see also June event)
Events
Open Workshops
- September 2025: yet open
- October 2025: Workshop on Layered Architectures and Security
- November 2025: Workshop on German FDO Connect project
- December 2025: Workshop about the relationship between FDOs and AI
Repeating the Internet Success Story
Introducing object-oriented methods to distributed data
Join the FDO Forum to shape the digital transformation
FAIR DOs for a foundational framework for
data interoperability:
Creating a basic Universal Data Language
Standardising how data and metadata
are structured and accessed
Enabling Seamless Data Exchange
Allowing disparate repositories and dataspaces to easily share
and interpret data
Promoting a Robust Data Ecosystem
Facilitating interoperability by making data more
(machine) accessible, understandable, and usable
Gateway to the global integrated dataspace
Simple adaptors enable repository and dataspace
integration without the need to change the internal organisation
Support data protection and sovereignty
by associating FDOs with operations, applying activeFDOs or a layered architecture and include
dataspace technology
FDO Forum Co-Chairs
Christine Kirkpatrick (SDSC, US), Erik Schultes (GO FAIR, NL), Sven Bingert (GWDG, DE), George Strawn (Academy, US), Peter Wittenburg (GWDG, DE)
