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Curation Cafe's supporting the FAIR-ness of content on WikiPathways

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Since last year, we try to organise a socalled Curation Cafe every month, to do some "hard-core" curation on a specific topic, related to the pathways in WikiPathways. Every database needs curation, with the aim to maintain the value of the data in the database over time, and to allow the data to remain available for reuse and preservation. Since we want our database to adhere to the FAIR principles , we have several ways in which we curate the content of WikiPathways critically. These include (described in more detail here ):  * Quality tags for each pathway * An Academy to show (new) users how pathways can be build for WikiPathways * A dedicated Quality Assurance protocol * Several involved people, volunteering for the Curation team (following the QA protocol every week) * Computer-aided curation with Jenkins And since Sept. 2017, there is also the Curation Cafe, were we sit together for a few hours (outside the regular office space) and work on a specifi