FAIR PLAY: The Lab Data Arcade

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200

In my consulting work I keep explaining the FAIR principles—data should be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable—and I keep noticing the same thing: slides don’t hurt. Everyone nods at “your data should be findable,” but nobody feels what it means that it isn’t. So for a lab digitalization webinar, I built an arcade where the audience gets to suffer through their own daily reality, with a stopwatch running.

FAIR PLAY is a retro CRT arcade in the browser with four neon cabinets, one per principle:

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FAIR PLAY: The Lab Data Arcade