Clara (short for clarity) is the AI data steward at the heart of Frontiers' FAIR² Data Management platform, launched on Open Data Day 2025. Researchers upload a dataset and Clara helps with metadata, curation and preparation; the output is a peer-reviewed, citable FAIR² Data Article with an interactive data portal including AI chat, visualisations and computation notebooks.
Benefits & outcomes
Weeks of manual data curation reduced to minutes, without taking control from the researcher.
Rigorous curation made accessible to non-specialists; datasets become citable, certified, discoverable contributions.
FAIR² Data Management won top honours in the 2026 CODiE Awards.
Notes & quotes
Video: Meet Clara — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeOltL0M0PU
Launch announcement: https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2025/03/03/reimagining-fair-for-an-ai-world-frontiers-introduces-fair-data-management
Video
Publisher / company: Frontiers
Date of mention: 16/07/2026
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMrOU0Trdlg