Insights into the FAIRness of the German Network University Medicine: A Survey.

The need to harness large amounts of data, possibly within a short period of time, became apparent during the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak. In 2022, the Corona Data Exchange Platform (CODEX), which had been developed within the German Network University Medicine (NUM), was extended by a number of common components, including a section on FAIR science. The FAIR principles enable research networks to evaluate how well they comply with current standards in open and reproducible science. To be more transparent, but also to guide scientists on how to improve data and software reusability, we disseminated an online survey within the NUM. Here we present the outcomes and lessons learnt.

Motivating Developers to Use Interoperable Standards for Data in Pandemic Health Apps.

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought along a massive increase in app development. However, most of these apps are not using interoperable data. The COMPASS project of the German COVID-19 Research Network of University Medicine ("Netzwerk Universitätsmedizin (NUM)") tackles this issue, by offering open-source technology, best practice catalogues, and suggestions for designing interoperable pandemic health applications (https://www.netzwerk-universitaetsmedizin.de/projekte/compass). Therefore, COMPASS conceived a framework that includes automated conformity checks as well as reference implementations for more efficient and pandemic-tailored app developments. It further aims to motivate and support developers to use interoperable standards.