fair.md v0.3.1

fair.md v0.3.1 — community-readiness release

v0.3.1 packages the governance, citation, examples, and review-readiness work
accepted through pull request #3.
It is a backward-compatible patch release of the v0.3 proposed convention.

Highlights

• The canonical FAIR.md records the stable Zenodo concept DOI separately from
  version-specific citation identifiers.
• Contribution guidance, change-approval governance, a Code of Conduct, and a
  formal community-review process are now part of the repository.
• Complete v0.3 packages demonstrate a generic dataset and an illustrative
  ISA-Tab Investigation–Study–Assay project.
• Default validation includes nested examples/**/FAIR.md packages and their
  root-relative resources and evidence.
• Validator tests use the same recursive example discovery behavior.
• The ISA example consistently declares ENVO for environmental material and UO
  for degree Celsius.

Persistent identifiers

• All-version concept DOI:
  10.5281/zenodo.20793968
• Exact v0.3.1 DOI:
  10.5281/zenodo.21622631

Use the version DOI for reproducible citation of this release and the concept
DOI when referring to the evolving fair.md project across releases.

Scope and limitations

fair.md remains a proposed convention, not a certification scheme or an
endorsed community standard. Structural conformance does not certify that a
digital object is FAIR. Maintainer-authored assessment results require
target-specific evidence and independent scrutiny.

The ISA example is marked aligned, not adopted; it does not claim an
external ISA validator result or ISA community endorsement.

Community review

Formal review remains open to GO FAIR/FIP practitioners, FAIRsharing curators,
RDA FAIR assessment specialists, RO-Crate maintainers, ISA Tools experts,
research data stewards, and working scientists:

• Formal community-review issue #4
• Review request

Changes and validation

• Full changelog
• Compare v0.3.0…v0.3.1