Much work and many sciences are needed to make knowledge about health more Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (“FAIR”) than it is today. To achieve a greater measure of health knowledge “FAIRness”, we are pursuing a vision of systematically improved knowledge delivery into practice. Our approach is to develop new infrastructure for knowledge organization, trust-building, and sharing. This new sociotechnical knowledge infrastructure – which includes workflows for people, methods of governance, thoughtful policies, mechanisms to uphold trust, and robust technical system support – is what we call the Knowledge Grid.
For this presentation, a demonstration of the technical components of the Knowledge Grid system being built here at U-M will be followed by an open discussion of the goals of Knowledge FAIRness for better health and potential moves that can be made to approach them.
