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The final SoFAIR webinar, held online on 11 December 2025, presented the goals, methodology, and outcomes of the SoFAIR project (Making Software FAIR: A machine-assisted workflow for the research software lifecycle). SoFAIR is a two-year CHIST-ERA funded project, led by The Open University, and involving six partners across four countries. The SoFAIR project partners The […]

Making Research Software FAIR: How SoFAIR Tackles the Reproducibility Challenge Reproducibility is one of the significant challenges of contemporary science. A landmark survey revealed that more than 70% of researchers had failed to reproduce another scientist’s experiments, and more than 50% were unable to reproduce their own (Baker, 2016). “Single occurrences that cannot be reproduced

Making research reusable and reproducible is a critical goal in the scientific community. The SoFAIR project hosted a valuable webinar dedicated to this important topic which is freely available online! The webinar, titled “Towards Reusability and Reproducibility of Research: A Scalable Workflow for Research Software Archival with CORE and Software Heritage,” presented a scalable workflow

SoFAIR Dataset in the Making:Challenges of Human Annotation of Software Mentions SoFAIR dataset, planned for publication in a data repository in upcoming weeks, is a multidisciplinary dataset of manually annotated mentions of software in scientific publications. It will be unique not only due to its multidisciplinary nature, but also because of how densely and comprehensively

We are excited to share the newly released SoFAIR Workflow documentation: A workflow for the management of the software assets lifecycle (guide for developers). The SoFAIR workflow is a specification for the development of an AI-assisted service for the identification and tracking of research software. It consists of three key parts, specifically, 1) AI-assisted identification

We are pleased to invite you to the webinar “Towards Reusability and Reproducibility of Research: A Scalable Workflow for Research Software Archival with CORE and Software Heritage”, organised as part of the international and interdisciplinary SoFAIR project (https://sofair.org), an initiative aimed at developing AI-assisted tools for the extraction of software mentions from research manuscripts to

We were excited to attend the annual international Open Repositories (OR) Conference this year as representatives of the SoFAIR Project. The OR Conference is an important event in the field of open knowledge, open source, and digital preservation. It brings together librarians, developers, repository managers, and others who are focused on making scholarly outputs accessible

In this blog post, we’re going to introduce you to the partners of the SoFAIR project. Each partner brings something different to the table, which is essential for achieving our project’s goals. You’ll get to know the diverse institutions and teams that contribute to the success of SoFAIR, and we’ll highlight their roles and the

This spring saw the launch of the multi-national SoFAIR project (Making Software FAIR: A machine-assisted workflow for the research software lifecycle), coordinated by The Open University and involving teams from six institutions across 5 countries. The project is funded by a €494k research grant in the international CHISTERA Open Research Data & Software Call which