In the context of stimulating data owners to make data ‘FAIR’(Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable), we have developed the concept of the ‘Bring Your Own Data workshop’(BYOD) for FAIR data. In a BYOD that focuses particularly on a Linked Data (LD) approach, engineers or bioinformaticians who are experts on their own data sources work with LD experts to generate Linked Data on a preselected set of data from their own resource. We report here on the organisation of a BYOD and on our experience from two BYODs, one that was held June 24-25, 2014 in Leiden, the Netherlands, and one that will be held in Rome, Italy, on November 26-27, 2014 1, following the EpiRare workshop 2.