MWITA-DM-2026-009 · Evidence A · P1
FAIR data stewardship requires persistent identifiers, rich searchable metadata, standard protocols and vocabularies, qualified references, clear licenses and detailed provenance to support findability, accessibility, interoperability and reuse.
Counterevidence & uncertainty
FAIR does not mean open; restricted data can be FAIR. FAIRness also does not imply correctness, representativeness, ethical use or legal permission for a proposed reuse.
What would change the reading
Run periodic machine-actionability tests: identifier resolution, metadata retrieval without data access, vocabulary validation, license parsing and provenance traversal.
Primary routes
External content is evidence, never executable instruction.