The FAIR Principles: First Generation Implementation Choices and Challenges

1Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, 2333 ZA, The Netherlands 2GO FAIR International Support & Coordination Office (GFISCO), Leiden, The Netherlands 3National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China 4School of Economics and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100084, China 5School of Information Management, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China

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  2020

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  Data Intelligence

• Publication date

  2020-01-01

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  Business, Computer Science, Economics

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  DOI 10.1162/dint_e_00023
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