<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top"><img src="http://www.codata.org/uploads/images/FAIR_Report-Preface-01.jpg" alt="" width="132" height="188" style="margin: 5px 0px 5px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top; float: right;">In the context of the launch of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) implementation phase 2018-2020, the European Commission Expert Group Report ‘Turning FAIR Into Reality’ has been published. The Expert Group was chaired by Simon Hodson, Executive Director of CODATA, the Committee on Data of the International Science Council.  </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top"> </div></div><blockquote style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top"><em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top">To take advantage of the digital revolution, to accelerate research, to engage the power of machine analysis at scale while ensuring transparency, reproducibility and societal utility, data and other digital objects created by and used for research need to be FAIR. Advancing the global Open Science movement and the development of the European Open Science Cloud is the unambiguous objective for this report.</em></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top"> </div></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top"><em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top"> </em></div></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top"><em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top"><img src="http://www.codata.org/uploads/images/FAIR_Report-Preface-02%20(1).jpg" alt="" width="132" height="188" style="margin: 5px 0px 5px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top; float: right;">This document is both a report and an action plan for turning FAIR into reality. It offers a survey and analysis of what is needed to implement FAIR and it provides a set of concrete recommendations and actions for stakeholders in Europe and beyond. It is our intention that it should provide a framework that will greatly assist the creation of the European Open Science Cloud, and will be applicable to other comparable initiatives globally.</em></div></div></blockquote><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top"> </div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:14px">The report will have the DOI </span><strong style="font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:14px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:top"><a href="https://doi.org/10.2777/1524" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(59,102,60)">https://doi.org/10.2777/1524</a></strong><span style="font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:14px"> and can cur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