FAIR is one of those acronyms that spreads rapidly, acquires a life of its own and can mean many things to different groups. A two-day event has just been held in Amsterdam to bring some of those groups from the chemical sciences together to better understand FAIR. Here I note a few items that caught my attention. Fairsharing.org was the basis for several presentations.

I have mentioned the Amsterdam manifesto before on these pages. It is worth repeating the eight simple principles: Data should be considered citable products of research. Such data should be held in persistent public repositories. If a publication is based on data not included with the article, those data should be cited in the publication.

The Amsterdam manifesto espouses the principles of citable open data.