FAIR Maturity Matrix

At any given time, different organisations are at different stages of their FAIR implementation journeys (i.e. implementing the FAIR principles of Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability) and benchmarking the level of FAIRness in an organisation is challenging.
While there are multiple FAIR data maturity models and metrics, there is no simple, agreed, maturity assessment model of FAIR data principle implementation at the organisational level for life-science organisations. To address this gap, in 2023 the Pistoia Alliance FAIR implementation Best Practice Working Group set out to design a FAIR maturity matrix, an organisational maturity model of FAIR implementation..
The first version of the FAIR maturity matrix was released in 2024 and is maintained by the FAIR-for-Pharma community of experts.

Table of content

• FAIR Maturity Matrix Summary
• The FAIR Maturity Matrix
• Introduction to the FAIR organisational maturity model
• FAIR Maturity Matrix: Dimensions (rows)
• FAIR Maturity Matrix: maturity levels (columns)
• Level 0 “Life is unFAIR”
• Level 1 “Started the FAIR journey”
• Level 2 “Getting FAIR”
• Level 3 “Pretty FAIR”
• Level 4 “Really FAIR”
• Level 5 “FAIRest of them all”
• Resources and lexicon
• Contributors

FAIR Maturity Matrix Version: 1.1 Date: 2025-03-14 © 2025 by Pistoia Alliance is licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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