Approaches to the integration of TRUST and FAIR principles

Abstract

FAIR4Health, an EU’s funded project, promotes the application of FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) in data derived from publicly funded health research initiatives to share and reuse them in the European Union Health Research community, defining an effective EU-wide strategy for the use of FAIR in Health. This paper analyses how to apply FAIR principles to “trust” in the context of the open-source software development of FAIR4Health. The FAIRification process and TRUST principles are discussed and related. The paper tries to open a new view on the trustworthiness of data access using open-source software.