Governance Dissociation in FAIR Infrastructure: The OpenAIRE Disclaimer as Documentary Artifact

Governance Dissociation in FAIR Infrastructure is a documentary analysis by Lee Sharks.

It uses an OpenAIRE helpdesk response and public infrastructure documents to examine how recommendation, funding, moderation, DOI registration, and metadata harvesting are distributed across OpenAIRE, Zenodo, CERN, and DataCite.

The paper calls the resulting accountability gap governance dissociation: each component may have limited authority even though failures propagate across the combined system.

The concept does not establish that OpenAIRE controlled Zenodo moderation. Its architectural and policy claims require source-specific verification.