Metadata for research outputs management - Part 2

•Data management is not a goal in itself, but a means to foster  the advancement of knowledge.

•The existing digital ecosystem surrounding scholarly output publication has many barriers preventing optimal discovery and reuse:

•variety of approaches,

•fragmentation of repositories,

•different access policies,

•uncertain license conditions,

•lack of machine interfaces,

•lack of metadata standardization…

•To overcome these obstacles, a workshop was held in the Netherlands in 2014, bringing together a wide group of academic and private stakeholders, setting foundational principles that all research objects should be FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable