FAIR Ecosystem Components

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This iterative working paper presents a set of high-level interactive components necessary for a functioning FAIR ecosystem. Operational repositories, and other (meta)data related services are supported by common reference information managed in registries, and by evaluation processes consisting of standards and assessment methods. <br> Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable digital objects (data and metadata) are a necessary input to, and output from, ecosystems that integrate (one provider serves many) or federate (many providers interoperate) services. <br> Users of all kinds must be empowered to find and access (meta)data that supports interoperability and reuse. All ecosystem actors depend on machine and human-mediated evaluation of digital objects’ FAIRness.