Author Biography

Barend Mons is Professor of BioSemantics at the Human Genetics Department of Leiden University Medical Center and founder of the BioSemantics group. He was elected CODATA President in 2018. Next to his leading role in the research of the group, Barend plays a leading role in the international development of “data stewardship” for biomedical data. For instance, he was headof-node of ELIXIR-NL at the Dutch Techcentre for Life Sciences (until 2015), is Integrator Life Sciences at the Netherlands eScience Center, and board member of the Leiden Center of Data Science. In 2014, Barend initiated the FAIR data initiative and in 2015, he was appointed Chair of the European Commission’s High Level Expert Group for the “European Open Science Cloud”, from which he retired by the end of 2016. Presently, Barend is co-leading the GO FAIR initiative, an initiative to kick start dvelopments towards the Internet of FAIR data and services, which will also contribute to the implementation of components of the European Open Science Cloud. The focus of the contribution of the BioSemantics group is on developing an interoperability backbone for biomedical applications in general and rare disease in particular. ORCID: 0000-0003-3934-0072

Martijn Kersloot is a PhD candidate at the Department of Medical Informatics in the Amsterdam UMC in collaboration with Electronic Data Capture platform Castor EDC. He has a background in Medical Informatics and his research focuses on the creation of a scalable solution that will aid in the standardization of medical research data. ORCID: 0000-0003-3357-3027 Tobias Kuhn is an assistant professor at the Computer Science department of the VU University Amsterdam. After receiving his PhD at the Institute of Computational Linguistics of the University of Zurich in 2010, he worked at the University of Malta, Yale University, and ETH Zurich. His research interests span fields including knowledge representation, controlled natural language, socio-technical systems, and scholarly communication. His recent work focuses on the approach of nanopublications, how cryptographic methods and provenance modelling can support trust and reliability, and how this can support the initiatives around the FAIR principles for data management. ORCID: 0000-0002-1267-0234 Ignasi Labastida is currently the work at the Head of the Research Unit at the University of Barcelona's Learning and Research Resources Centre (CRAI) where he also leads the Office for the Dissemination of Knowledge. He is currently chairing the Board of SPARC Europe and he is a member of the Steering Committee of the Info and Open Access Policy Group at the League of European Research Universities (LERU). He is the co-author of the LERU Roadmap for Research Data and the LERU Roadmap on Open Science. He has participated in several research projects including LEARN, a EU H2020 project focused on helping research performing institutions in managing their research data. ORCID: 0000-0001-7030-7030 Barbara Magagna holding a master degree in landscape planning and in geoinformatics, has 24 years of experience working in the field of GIS, landscape ecology modelling and database management for projects operating at different scales. Her interests and formation moved in the last years also towards ontology engineering and process facilitation, abilities she could already apply in several national and European semantic projects. She had been working for the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, the University of Vienna and since December 2007 for the Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt GmbH) where she undertakes the function of a semantic analyst and database designer. She was involved in FP7 and H2020 projects as facilitator in the development process of terminologies like SERONTO and EnvThes. She has experience as work package lead related to data management, in the design of UML models and XML schemas in the air quality data reporting area, in the design of semantic models in projects related to Environmental Research Infrastructures (ENVRI). ORCID: 0000-0003-2195-3997 Peter McQuilton holds a 1st class BSc (Hons) degree in Genetics from the University of Leeds (2000) and a PhD (2004) in Drosophila neurodevelopment from the University of Cambridge. Peter has spent over 15 years working in the fields of bioinformatics, biocuration and data wrangling, first as a genetic literature curator at FlyBase, the premier database on drosophila genes and genomes, and then as part of the Data Readiness Group at the Oxford e-Research Centre. As part of the Data Readiness Group, Peter leads the FAIRsharing project. FAIRsharing is a manually curated, searchable portal of interlinked standards, databases and policies, from all domains. ORCID: 0000-0003-2687-1982 Author Biography Natalie Meyers is an E-Research librarian at University of Notre Dame's Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship where she helps pioneer and provide research data consulting services, including more in-depth data management services in support of grant-funded research. She serves as an ambassador and advisor to groups and individuals regarding data and digital content management. She provides advice & works with units across campus and externally to provide collaborative, team-based support for reproducible research, data management and software preservation needs, as well as data and metadata services for the Navari Center for Digital Scholarship. ORCID: 0000-0001-6441-6716 Annalisa Montesanti is the Program Manager at the Health Research Board (HRB). She is responsible for developing and managing a portfolio for health research careers in order to develop a coordinated approach to building capacity in health research in Ireland. She has developed a framework promoting the training, support and career development of academic researchers and health practitioners with the long-term goal of training individuals as collaborative researcher in order to generate ideas and undertake research, drive the integration of research and evidence into policy and practice, thus improving decision-making and, ultimately, health outcomes and creating a wider impact in society. Annalisa is also deeply involved in promoting open science, FAIR data and research data stewardship through several international collaborations. Annalisa had many years of experience in scientific research in in Italy, England and Ireland. She has a BSc from Palermo University in Italy and a PhD in cancer biology from the Institute of Molecular Medicine in Oxford, UK. ORCID: 0000-0003-  Mirjam van Reisen is Professor International Relations, Innovation and Care at Tilburg University and Professor Computing for Society at Leiden Centre for Data Science, at the University of Leiden. Van Reisen is Research Leader of the Globalization, Accessibility, Innovation and Care (GAIC) network. Van Reisen is the Coordinator of the Go-FAIR Implementation Network Africa. Van Reisen is a member of the Dutch Advisory Council on International Affairs (AIV) and Chair of the Development Assistance Committee (COS). Van Reisen leads the oganisation EEPA in Brussels. She is a member of the Board of Philips Foundation and the SNV Netherlands Development Organisation. Van Reisen received the Golden Image Award in 2012 by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. ORCID: 0000-0003-0627-8014 Philippe Rocca-Serra, after an engineering degree from University of Rennes, received his PhD in Molecular Genetics from University of Bordeaux. He worked at EMBL-EBI in helping establish the European microarray archive. He has 10 years of practice in data management and has been an active member of several standardization efforts, aiming at promoting open data and open science vision. He is technical coordinator of the ISA project, part of the OBO Foundry editorial board and participates in resource development as part of the OBI project. ORCID: 0000-0001-9853-5668 Robert Pergl is an Associate Professor at Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Information Technologies of Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic, where he founded "Centre for Conceptual Modelling and Implementation", a group focusing on research, development and applications of methods and tools for ontological engineering, enterprise engineering, software engineering and data stewardship. Robert Pergl is a National Node Committee member of ELIXIR Czech Republic. He is a member of several GO FAIR initiatives and projects and together with Rob Hooft he leads the Data Stewardship Wizard development. Contribution: Leading the authors' team and authoring process, communications author, copy-editing and quality assurance, Data Stewardship Wizard details. ORCID: 0000-0003-2980-4400 Susanna-Assunta Sansone is an Associate Director, Associate Professor and Principal Investigator at the Oxford e-Research Centre, part of the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford. She is one of the authors of the FAIR principles and an active contributor to a variety of community-driven FAIR-enabling efforts. Her group researches and develops methods and tools to improve data reuse, for data transparency, research integrity and the evolution of scholarly publishing: https://sansonegroup.eng.ox.ac.uk. ORCID: 0000-0001-5306-5690 Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos is the International Technology Coordinator of the GO FAIR International Support and Coordination Office, and Associate Professor of the BioSemantics group at the Leiden University Medical Centre in Leiden, The Netherlands. His background is in ontologydriven conceptual modelling, semantic interoperability, service-oriented computing, requirements engineering and context-aware computing. In the last five years Luiz has been involved in a number of activities to realize the FAIR principles, including the development of a number of technologies and tools to support making, publishing, indexing, searching and annotating FAIR (meta)data. ORCID: 0000-0002-1164-1351 In a 20-year career specializing in metadata, ontologies and discovery, Juliane Schneider has worked in start-ups, on Wall Street in an insurance library, at New York University medical center, for EBSCO publishing, and at The University California, San Diego in the Research Data Curation Program. Her longest stint at any job was the six years she spent at Countway Library as the Metadata Librarian, and now she has returned to Harvard as the Team Lead/Lead Data Curator for Harvard Catalyst. ORCID: 0000-0002-7664-3331 George O. Strawn is currently the director of the Board on Research Data and Information at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine where he focuses on Open Science and FAIR data. Prior to joining the Academies, Dr. Strawn was the director of the National Coordination Office (NCO) for the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program and co-chair of the NITRD interagency committee. ORCID: 0000-0003-4098-0464

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Mark Thompson is a senior research scientist in the Biosemantics group at the Human Genetics department of Leiden University Medical Centre. He obtained a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Amsterdam in 2012. He has expertise in hardware and software architecture (co-) design, data management, data modeling, FAIR data infrastructure and computational aspects of knowledge discovery. ORCID: 0000-0002-7633-1442 Tobias Weigel is working at the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ) in the area of e-infrastructures. Tobias has worked extensively on Digital Object and Persistent Identifier services in multiple contexts, including community cyberinfrastructures (ESGF, ENVRI) and cross-disciplinary infrastructures (EUDAT, EOSC). He has co-chaired multiple working groups of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) to convene on technical recommendations in the area of identifiers, metadata and related e-infrastructures services. Tobias is editorial board member of the CODATA Data Science Journal and member of the RDA Technical Advisory Board. Tobias holds a PhD from University of Hamburg in computer science. ORCID: 0000-0002-4040-0215

Mark D. Wilkinson is Fundacion BBVA Chair in Biotechnology and Isaac Peral Distinguished
Researcher at the Center for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics, Technical University of Madrid. For the past 15 years, his laboratory has focused on designing biomedical data/tool representation, discovery, and automated reuse infrastructures -what would now be called "FAIR". He is lead author of the primary FAIR Data Principles paper, and lead author on the first paper describing a reference implementation of those principles over legacy data. He is a founding member of the FAIR Metrics Authorship Group, tasked with defining the precise, measurable behaviors that FAIR resources should exhibit. Beyond FAIR, his laboratory also studies the application of Artificial Intelligence techniques to the problem of microbiome engineering. ORCID: 0000-0001-6960-357X Egon L. Willighagen is applying cheminformatics and chemometrics to biological questions as Assistant Professor at Maastricht University. He has been promoting Open Science for many years and is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cheminformatics. ORCID: 0000-0001-7542-0286

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Marco Roos is assistant professor and group leader of the Biosemantics group of the Leiden University Medical Centre (Human Genetics Department). The group is known for co-founding and advocating the FAIR data principles. His research focus is on making state-of-the-art computer science applicable to enhance biomedical research (e-Science), particularly the application of computational knowledge discovery and linked data techniques to address translational research challenges of rare human diseases. At an international level, Marco is focused on the implementation of FAIR principles to create a powerful substrate and worldwide robust infrastructure for knowledge discovery across distributed rare disease data resources. ORCID: 0000-0002-8691-772X Sarala Wimalaratne spent the last 10 years at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) working with multiple data integration and infrastructure projects. During her time at the EMBL-EBI, she led the Identifiers.org resource, which provides stable identifier resolution for life science data and beyond. She was also involved in the Data Commons Pilot Phase Consortium on globally unique identifiers (GUIDs), the Elixir Interoperability Platform on BioSchemas and Identifiers, the John Kunze is an Identifier Systems Architect at the California Digital Library. With a background in computer science and mathematics, he wrote BSD Unix software that comes pre-installed with Mac and Linux systems. He created the ARK identifier scheme, the N2T.net scheme-agnostic resolver, and contributed heavily to Internet standards for URLs (RFC1736, RFC1625, RFC2056), archiving (BagIt -RFC8493), Web archiving (WARC), and Dublin Core metadata (RFC2413, RFC2731). ORCID: 0000-0001-7604-8041

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Ulrich Schwardmann is deputy leader of the eScience working group of the GWDG, a joint compute and IT competence center of the university and the Max Planck Society, and leads there the data management activities of GWDG. He has a doctoral degree in mathematics and has a long lasting background in scientific computing. Ulrich Schwardmann is working with persistent identifiers as enabling technology for research data management since almost ten years. He is speaker of the management board of ePIC, the Persistent Identifier Consortium for eResearch, and is DONA-MPA System Administrator for GWDG. His current research interests include Digital Object Interface Protocol, PID Information Types and Data Type Registration, PID profiles and policies. ORCID: 0000-0001-6337-8674 Jens Klump leads the Geoscience Analytics Team in the Mineral Resources Unit of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO). Jens' work focuses on data in minerals exploration, investigating the digital value chain from data capture to data analysis and decision making. This value chain includes automated data and metadata capture, sensor data integration, both in the field and in the laboratory, data processing workflows, and data analysis by statistical methods, machine learning and numerical modelling. Jens obtained degrees in geology and oceanography from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and received his PhD in marine geology from the University of Bremen, Germany. ORCID: 0000-0001-5911-6022 Sofiane Bendoukha is a computer scientist at the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ) within the data management group. For years, Sofiane has been working on scientific workflow management systems, service orchestration and workflow modeling. After joining DKRZ, he focused more on the development of software tools for the climate community related to the management of persistent identifiers and Handle servers in the EUDAT project. Currently, Sofiane is a deputy leader in the EOSC-HUB project. He is responsible of designing, implementing and deploying reliable and user-friendly compute services to scientists related to the climate domain. Sofiane holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Hamburg, Germany. ORCID: 0000-0002-8959-2027 Rob Quick is the Associate Director of the Science Gateways Research Center with the Pervasive Technology Institute at Indiana University. Rob has been working with interoperability of international cyberinfrastructure for more than 15 years. This includes holding the position of Chief Operations Officer for the Open Science Grid and managing the XSEDE Science Gateways Support Services. In recent years he has turned his focus from interoperability of research computing infrastructure to data interoperability. This includes NSF funding (NSF #1659310 and #1839013) to create and operate the Robust Persistent Identification of Data (RPID) testbed which provides a set of testbed services to allow researcher to implement the FAIR principles within the Digital Object Architecture. Rob holds a degree in Physics from Purdue University. ORCID: 0000-0002-0994-728X Annalisa Landi, PharmD, II level post-graduate Master in Regulatory Sciences "G.Benzi" at University of Pavia, Researcher at Fondazione per la Ricerca Farmacologica Gianni Benzi Onlus. She is involved in scientific and regulatory activities, in particular related to data protection and confidentiality, plan and management of patient registries and medicine databases management. ENCePP WG3 member. Stephan Raaijmakers is specialized in machine learning-based natural language processing. He received his PhD on information geometry for kernel machines from Tilburg University in 2009. At TNO, he works on a variety of artificial intelligence-related topics, including explainable deep learning. Recently, he has been appointed as professor in Communicative AI at Leiden University. ORCID: 0000-0003-2984-6889

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Jack Verhoosel is a Senior Scientist at TNO and is part of the Data Science department within TNO. His group focuses on semantic interoperability, i.e., the efficient and effective use of information technology (IT) for the cooperation and information sharing between organizations. He specializes in semantic technology, artificial intelligence (AI) reasoning and data analytics. Research topics include (1) knowledge modelling in ontologies, (2) semantic Web and reasoning technology for data integration and (3)  Kees Burger is a software engineer associated with the Vrije Universiteit and the Biosemantics group at the Leiden University Medical Center. He has been working with pioneers in data sharing and interoperability standards since 2009, developing expertise in software design and architecture, semantic Web technology, and FAIR data infrastructure. His current activities involve the Personal Health Train (PHT) and broader the Internet of FAIR Data and Services (IFDS). ORCID: 0000-0002-5437-779X Oya Beyan is a researcher at Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology and at the Department of Computer Science at RWTH Aachen University. Her research focuses on methods of data reusability and FAIR data, data-driven transformation and distributed analytics. Her area of expertise is in the semantic Web technologies and application of them in health care and life sciences. She actively contributes to the national and international initiatives to enable the adoption of FAIR principles and develops tools and infrastructures supporting FAIR data. With her interdisciplinary background in informatics, medical informatics and sociology, she developed a focus on societal reflections of data-driven change. ORCID: 0000-0001-7611-3501

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Ananya Choudhury is a researcher and PhD Student at Clinical Data Science Group, Maastro Clinic, Maastricht University. Her research focuses on methods and infrastructure of privacy preserving distributed learning on clinical data, tools and methods for data FAIR-ification and learning models on FAIR data for improving patient care. ORCID: 0000-0001-9847-8165 Johan van Soest holds a PhD from Maastricht University on centralized and distributed learning of prognostic/predictive models in radiation oncology focusing on knowledge representation, methods for validation of existing models and translation into clinical practice. He is currently active as Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Radiation Oncology at MAASTRO clinic and the university's Institute of Data Science. ORCID: 0000-0003-2548-0330 Oliver Kohlbacher is a Chair for Applied Bioinformatics at the University of Tübingen, Director of the Institute for Translational Bioinformatics at University Hospital Tübingen, and a Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology. The lab's current research focus is on developing methods and tools for the analysis of biomedical high-throughput data and their application in translational research. ORCID: 0000-0003-1739-4598 Lukas Zimmermann is a research assistant and software developer at the Institute for Translational Bioinformatics at the University Hospital Tübingen with a background in Bioinformatics. His research interests currently focus on data integration and software design and quality in medical informatics. ORCID: 0000-0002-9596-5432 Holger Stenzhorn is working at the Saarland University Medical Center coordinating the development and organizational set-up of a medical data integration center (meDIC) as well as supporting the Tübingen University Hospital in its meDIC work. His particular interest lies on the seamless integration of the multimodal, multilevel and multisource data from the plethora of clinical and research systems found within hospitals and medical centers to facilitate further biomedical research. ORCID: 0000-0001-9744-174X

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Md. Rezaul Karim is a researcher at Fraunhofer FIT, Germany and a PhD candidate at RWTH Aachen University, Germany. He is working towards developing a distributed knowledge pipeline with knowledge graphs and neural networks towards making them explainable and interpretable. His research interests include machine learning, knowledge graphs, bioinformatics, and explainable artificial intelligence (XAI). ORCID: 0000-0001-6804-9183 Stefan Decker is the director of Fraunhofer FIT, Germany and Professor of Computer Science at RWTH Aachen University, Germany. He was the director of Insight Centre for Data Analytics, and professor of informatics at NUI Galway, Ireland between 2006 and 2015. His research interests include Semantic Web and linked data, knowledge representation, and neural networks. ORCID: 0000-0001-6324-7164 Andre Dekker is a board-certified medical physicist at MAASTRO Clinic and full professor at Maastricht UMC+ and Maastricht University where he holds the chair "Clinical Data Science". His research focuses on three main themes: 1) building global FAIR data sharing infrastructures; 2) machine learning outcome prediction models from the data; 3) applying outcome prediction models to improve lives of patients. The main scientific breakthrough has been the development of a Semantic Web and ontology based data sharing and distributed learning infrastructure that does not require data to leave the hospital. This has reduced many of the ethical and other barriers to share data. ORCID: 0000-0002-0422-7996 Sarah Cohen-Boulakia is a full Professor at the Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique at Universite Paris-Sud. She holds a PhD in Computer Science and a Habilitation from the same university. She has been working for fifteen years in multi-disciplinary groups involving computer scientists and biologists of various domains. She spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, USA and 18 months at the Institute of Computational Biology (IBC) of Montpellier, France. Dr. Cohen-Boulakia's research interests include provenance and design of scientific workflows, reproducibility of scientific experiments, integration, querying and ranking in the context of biological and biomedical databases. She currently co-animates a National working group on reproducibility of scientific experiments and she is involved in the European Research Infrastructure ELIXIR (https://www.elixir-europe.org/). ORCID: 0000-0002-7439-1441 Daniel Garijo is a computer scientist at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California. His research activities focus on e-Science and the Semantic Web, specifically on how to increase the understandability of software and scientific workflows using their associated provenance, metadata and intermediate results. Daniel was a member of the W3C Provenance Working Group to develop a standard for provenance on the Web, and he is currently collaborating with domain scientists to ease the description and composition of software in environmental and social sciences. ORCID: 0000-0003-0454-7145

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Yolanda Gil is Director of Knowledge Technologies and Associate Division Director at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California, and Research Professor in Computer Science and in Spatial Sciences. She is also Associate Director of Interdisciplinary Programs in Data Science at USC. She received her M.S. and PhD degrees in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, with a focus on artificial intelligence. Her research is on intelligent interfaces for knowledge capture and discovery, which she investigates in a variety of projects concerning knowledge-based planning and problem solving, information analysis and assessment of trust, semantic annotation and metadata, and community-wide development of knowledge bases. Dr. Gil collaborates with scientists in different domains on semantic workflows and metadata capture, social knowledge collection, computer-mediated collaboration, and automated discovery. She initiated and chaired the W3C Provenance Group that led to a community standard in this area. Dr. Gil is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and Past Chair of its Special Interest Group in Artificial Intelligence. She is also a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and was elected as its 24th President in 2016. ORCID: 0000-0001-8465-8341 Michael R. Crusoe is one of the co-founders of the Common Workflow Language project and the CWL Project Lead. His facilitation, technical contributions, and training on behalf of CWL draw from his time as the former lead developer of C. Titus Brown's k-h-mer project, his previous career as a sysadmin and programmer, and his experiences in various Free and Open Source Software communities. This is not Michael's first time working on a standards project as he was the technical author of the International Labour Organization's Seafarers ' Identity Card (2003) standard which is in force and ratified by 32 countries. Currently based in Berlin, Germany; Michael has been living in Europe for the last 4 years where he has enjoyed partnering with ELIXIR, ASTRON, and the EOSCPilot to build collaborations across the continent and across the world. ORCID: 0000-0002-2961-9670 Kristian Peters is currently working at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry. He is part of the Germany network of bioinformatic infrastructures (de.NBI) and is a member of the GoFAIR metabolomics implementation network and the societies NBS and BLAM e.V. which focus on bryophyte biology and ecology. As he has studied both Information Technology and Biology his research focus is mainly on interdisciplinarity and integrating the research fields biochemistry, bioinformatics and ecology. His expertise in data integration covers a wide range of topics, including cloud e-infrastructures, statistics, machine learning, chemical ecology and ecometabolomics, targeted and untargeted metabolomics, plant and vegetation ecology, bryophyte biology, macro-and microscopy and climate change biology. His current research activities focus on the integrative data analysis and characterisation of compound classes of rare species in ecological contexts, creating scientific computational workflows for use cases in ecometabolomics and biomedicine, promoting the reproducibility and interoperability of software tools and the adoption of standardized research objects and formats. ORCID: 0000-0002-4321-0257

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Daniel Schober, a trained neurobiologist, did his PhD in medical knowledge engineering at Charité Hospital, Berlin. He mainly works in the areas of symbolic artificial intelligence, ontology engineering, policy management and data standard development. Aside his contributions to a multitude of description logics ontologies, he created best practices for the OBO Foundry (naming conventions) and developed open access XML standards for nuclear magnetic resonance data (nmrML). Foundational ontology research is done on the scale-dependency of ontologic top level categories, i.e. towards advanced physics concepts that emerge on the micro-and macrocosmic scale. Currently he investigates the impact of semantic and syntactic data standards in contribution to FAIR Data, in particular to Galaxy computational workflows. He has worked at the European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge, UK, then moved to IMBI Freiburg working on medical data integration and until recently, he worked in the mass spectrometry and bioinformatics department of the Leibniz Institute for Plant Biochemistry in Halle, Germany. ORCID: 0000-0001-8014-6648 Larry Lannom is Director of Information Services and Vice President at the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), where he works with organizations in both the public and private sectors to develop experimental and pilot applications of advanced networking and information management technologies. Mr Lannom's current work is focused on CNRI's Digital Object Architecture, which is based on the concept of the digital object, a uniform approach to representing digital information across computing and application environments, both now and into the future. Mr. Lannom joined CNRI in September of 1996. Prior to that, he was a Technical Director at DynCorp, Inc., where he served as an advisor on digital library research for the ISTO, CSTO, and ITO offices of the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), including initiating the Computer Science Technical Reports (CS-TR) project, DARPA's first effort in the digital library area. In addition, he managed the development of internal information systems for DARPA. Originally trained as a librarian, his earlier work included reference book publishing and information retrieval research. ORCID: 0000-0003-1254-7604 Dimitris Koureas is currently head of the department for the development of international biodiversity research infrastructures at Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Coordinator of the new pan-European Research Infrastructure DiSSCo and chair of the COST Action Mobilize. He holds a PhD in plant systematics with post-doctoral expertise acquired in biodiversity informatics/e-taxonomy. He participates as a senior manager in many European projects in the areas of biodiversity data and infrastructures. He is former chair of the Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) organization and current member of the Technical Advisory Board of the Research Data Alliance (RDA). He is an invited lecturer on biodiversity infrastructures in European universities. ORCID: 0000-0002-4842-6487

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Alex Hardisty is Director of Informatics Projects in the School of Computer Science and Informatics at Cardiff University, where his leadership contributions in environmental, biodiversity and ecological informatics have spanned engineering of large-scale distributed computing systems (e-Infrastructures), curating scientific information in knowledge infrastructures, virtual research environments, and socio-technical issues of new technology adoption. Alex leads work in the EU Horizon 2020 ICEDIG project on "innovation and consolidation for large scale digitization of natural heritage", a part of the Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) programme, where he is presently designing the global architecture for Digital Specimens and Collections. As a technical innovator, Alex has previously been responsible for the Biodiversity Virtual e-Laboratory (BioVeL), the Reference Model for research infrastructures for environmental sciences (ENVRI RM), and the "Bari Manifesto" for an interoperability framework for Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBV). Shelley Stall is the Senior Director for the American Geophysical Union's Data Leadership Program. She works with AGU's members, their organizations, and the broader research community to improve data and digital object practices with the ultimate goal of elevating how research data is managed and valued. Shelley's recent work includes being the program manager for the Enabling FAIR Data project engaging over 300 stakeholders in the Earth, space, and environmental sciences to make data open and FAIR targeting the publishing and repository communities to change practices by no longer archiving data in the supplemental information of a paper but instead depositing the data supporting the research into a trusted repository where it can be discovered, managed, and preserved. ORCID: 0000-0003-2926-8353

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Leah R. McEwen is the Chemistry Librarian at Cornell University, where she manages digital library and information services for chemistry and related research and learning communities. She is an active volunteer in many chemistry organizations and is currently chair-elect of the Committee on Publications and Cheminformatics Data Standards of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. For the past several years, she has been building up a global community of stakeholders involved in chemical data publishing and sharing, including researchers, publishers, librarians, repositories, and software developers. She has worked across sectors and disciplines, connecting with other scientific unions and data initiatives to identify gaps and develop collective workflows to facilitate FAIR data exchange across the chemistry enterprise and beyond. ORCID: 0000-0003-2968-1674 Lesley Wyborn is an Adjunct Fellow with the National Computational Infrastructure at the Australian National University and the Australian Research Data Commons. She worked for Geoscience Australia from 1972 to 2014 in both scientific research (geochemistry and mineral systems) and in geoscientific data management. In geoinformatics her main interests are developing international standards that support the integration of Earth science datasets into transdisciplinary research projects and in developing seamless high-performance data sets that can be used in High Performance Computing environments. She is currently Chair of the Australian Academy of Science "National Data in Science Committee". She was awarded the Australian Government Public Service Medal in 2014, the 2015 Geological Society of America Career Achievement Award in Geoinformatics and the 2019 US Earth Science Information Partners Martha Maiden Award. ORCID: 0000-0001-5976-4943 Nancy J. Hoebelheinrich is a founder and principal of Knowledge Motifs LLC, a company focused upon providing consulting, project management / coordination, grant writing and educational / training services to business, non-profit, and governmental organizations needing assistance in organizing, managing, archiving and preserving data. She has been involved in a number of projects focused upon managing data in leadership, coordination, community engagement, and education / training roles as both a volunteer and a contractor. Key projects including the Enabling FAIR Data project where she served as Co-Chair of the Technical Adoption Group for training on FAIR data, and the ESIP-hosted Data Management Training Clearinghouse where she is currently serving as Editor, and as Co-Investigator and Project Coordinator on a 3 year National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. ORCID: 0000-0002-6797-7903 Ian Bruno is Head of Strategic Partnerships at the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) which has been managing and curating scientific data for over 50 years. Ian himself has over 25 years' experience in the world of Chemistry and Informatics. He is an active participant in research data activities and initiatives through the Research Data Alliance and the World Data System and is involved in data-related activities of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). He is Secretary to the InChI Trust which oversees the maintenance and development of the IUPAC International Chemical Identifier. Ian's various roles at the CCDC have included software development and management of technical and scientific teams and projects. In his current role, he is responsible for shaping the CCDC's interactions with wider research data activities and communities. ORCID: 0000-0003-4901-9936

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Margreet Bloemers is project leader for FAIR data & data management at the Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development (ZonMw). Margreet promotes creating and reusing FAIR data in several contexts: she develops innovative approaches and coordinates procedures for data management in ZonMw's research programs; at the National Platform Open Science, she is one of the project leaders for introducing open science in academia in the Netherlands. In the field of antimicrobial resistance, she is work package leader for Research Infrastructures at the Joint Programming Initiative Antimicrobial Resistance. Also, she participates in the international consortium VALUE-Dx for innovative diagnostic strategies for more personalized antibiotic therapy in community care settings. Finally, Margreet advises about the implementation of research findings from ZonMw funded projects into policy and practice. Margreet is trained as a biologist, and got her PhD in developmental biology at the Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

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Tomasz Miksa has been working as a researcher at SBA Research since October 2012. He received in 2011 his MSc in systems and computer networks from the Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland. In 2016 he received his PhD in computer science from the TU Wien for his work on verification and validation of scientific workflow re-executions. He was involved in preservation of business processes in the EU-funded FP7 project TIMBUS. Furthermore, he took part in the FP7 4C Project which aimed to clarify the costs of curation of digital assets. Currently, he is a chair of the DMP Common Standards working group at the Research Data Alliance (RDA) and a co-founder of RDA Austria. His research focuses on reproducibility of eScience experiments and machineactionable data management plans. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to: experiment context modelling, verification and validation, data repository architectures and workflows, digital curation and preservation. ORCID: 0000-0002-4929-7875 Robert Samors serves as the Coordination Officer for the Belmont Forum e-Infrastructures & Data Management Project. In that role, he coordinates and liaises with e-I & DM project leads, Action Theme co-leads, stakeholders, Advisory Group and Oversight Committee members, and international partners to encourage the adoption of data principles and best practices, promote effective data planning and stewardship, and develop training curricula to enable practitioners to put those principles and practices into action through Belmont Forum agency activities and funded projects. Judit Ungvari is an ecologist by training, with expertise in aspects of avian biology in tropical habitats. She studied birds in the Peruvian Amazon region combining both lab-and field-based research and received her PhD degree in Zoology with a certificate and concentration in Tropical Conservation and Development at the University of Florida in 2016. Judit then worked as a postdoctoral scholar at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC, addressing conservation issues in agroecosystems in Colombia. She has become involved in local capacity building and community outreach both in the USA and Latin America and has mentored dozens of students to complete independent research projects. Her interests include increasing diversity and broadening participation in the sciences, sustainability science, science diplomacy, supporting open and reproducible research efforts, and communicating science to the public, especially in museum settings. As a AAAS Science & Tech Policy fellow at the National Science Foundation, Judit is working on various international activities facilitating transdisciplinary global change research, including the advancement of e-infrastructures and data management planning. ORCID: 0000-0002-5180-8048 Ron Dekker is the director of CESSDA ERIC, the Consortium of Social Science Data Archives, with its main office in Bergen, Norway. CESSDA is a European Infrastructure with 20 members (countries) and combines the work and expertise of these countries' social science data service providers, see www.cessda.eu. On behalf of CESSDA, he is also the coordinator of the Social Sciences & Humanities Open Cloud project (SSHOC). He is a member of the European Open Science Cloud Executive Board and serves in several strategic advisory boards. Ron studied econometrics and worked for ten years in labour market research at Dutch universities. He was at the national research council for almost twenty years -running a data agency, program committees and in general management (institutes, infrastructure and open science). This included secondment to the Dutch government for project leadership on Open Science of the Dutch EU Presidency in 2016 and as national expert at the European Commission in Brussels in 2017. ORCID: 0000-0003-0989-4963

Rowena Davis was a project coordinator for the Belmont Forum e-Infrastructures and Data
Associate professor Margareta Hellström is a senior staff member at ICOS Carbon Portal, working with research data management issues such as Open Science, persistent identifiers, data citation and usage statistics and FAIR. She has represented ICOS in several Horizon 2020 projects, including ENVRI-FAIR where she leads the work package on FAIR training and skills development.  University. Herman has more than 70 peer reviewed publications and is inventor on eight patents. He is the Industry Project Leader of the IMI FAIRplus project, which is developing best practices in FAIRification of data from IMI projects and internal pharma data. ORCID: 0000-0002-1915-3141 Albert Mons is one of the founding partners of Phortos Consultants, a consultancy practice to academic institutions and private companies specializing in FAIR data and services solutions. Over the years Albert and his partners have founded and cofounded a number of start-ups in the field of bio-informatics & semantics, data integration and support, network solutions and big data solutions. One of them is Euretos, a platform provider for AI driven hypothesis generation and InSilico Target/Biomarker Discovery and Validation. Recently, Albert has been appointed International Project Manager GO FAIR running the global Business Development and coordinating the partners in the technical Implementation process lead. In addition he was a member of the writing team for the European Open Science Cloud Implementation movement "GOFAIR". Albert also provides FAIR trainings focusing on FAIR Data Stewardship, Ontology and Semantic Modeling and related FAIR services. Recently, in collaboration with the GO FAIR Foundation, Albert initiated (and now chairs) the GO FAIR Service Provider Consortium including, amongst others, Accenture, KPMG, Deloitte, and several SME's providing professional FAIR related consulting and implementations. ORCID: 0000-0001-8038-7572 Wouter Franke is a consultant for the Dutch National Health Care Institute with a background in Computer Science and Change Management. He has extensive experience with large implementations of data exchange programs in complex networks of public and private organizations within the Dutch healthcare. Since 2017 he has been working on both research and development of FAIR and the Internet of FAIR Data & Services, and the implementation of FAIR within programs run by the Dutch National Health Care Institute. His goal is to ensure data within healthcare are available to a wide range of stakeholders and can be interpreted by machines. This in turn will greatly increase the value of existing and emerging capabilities in the field of data science, ultimately resulting in better prevention and healthcare systems. ORCID: 0000-0001-5058-3767 Arie Baak is one of the co-founders of Euretos, an AI platform used by (pre-)clinical researchers to take a in-silico, systems biology approach to the identification & validation of targets, biomarkers and indications. For the first two decades of his career, Arie has worked in various customer facing strategic innovation roles in the mobile telecoms and Internet infrastructure markets. In this high performance/high volume environment he has been developing analytics solutions that provide actionable insight to end users long before the term "big data analytics" became fashionable. Since 2010 Arie has been applying his expertise to the life sciences where has worked with some of the world's leading pharma, biotech and academic institutions to develop a data & AI driven approach to life sciences research. ORCID: 0000-0003-2829-6715

Author Biography
Bert Meerman is the Director of the GO FAIR Foudation (GFF). GFF supports the International GO FAIR Office, mainly in the area of paving the wave for implementing a coherent certification program. Bert is a senior business executive with a successful track record in Finance, Network, Information and Data technology. Bert has worked in a variety of management roles in different countries, mostly for American software companies. In addition, Bert has been the Secretary General of the International Factors Group, a consortium of finance companies where he implemented a successful worldwide data-exchange platform, based upon agreed network protocols and EDIFACT standards. Bert is a business economist, with an MBA from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. ORCID: 0000-0002-0071-2660 Renger Jellema, PhD, DSM Biotechnology Center (The Netherlands), has a track record of more than 20 years working in the field of chemometrics and data science. His roots are in analytical chemistry for which he obtained a Bachelor's degree in 1992. Renger studied chemistry at the University of Nijmegen (Radboud University) which he finished in 1995. Subsequently he did his PhD at the University of Amsterdam in a collaboration with the steel company Corus. After a short appointment at the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) he obtained a position at TNO Quality of Life, Zeist where he worked in the field of chemometrics as Product Manager of the product group "Analytical Information Sciences" until 2009. In his current employment at DSM, Renger is active in the field of data science where he is involved in several projects to extract more value out of data and implement digital tools within a Biotechnology environment. ORCID: 0000-0003-2435-6178 Scott Lusher is Janssen's business technology leader for cheminformatics systems and Discovery Sciences globally, providing strategic technology partnership for 700 scientists, from medicinal chemistry, computational chemistry, data sciences, screening, compound logistics and Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics. In this role he is responsible for developing and executing strategic plans for data-driven and compute-intensive research practices, initiating new projects and management of the overall portfolio of technology projects to enable small molecule discovery. Prior to joining Janssen, he was director of strategy and applied eScience at the Netherlands eScience Center in Amsterdam, enabling scientific IT approaches across Dutch academia. During this time, he participated in the original FAIR workshop and is a coauthor of the resulting publication setting out the FAIR principles. Scott's background is computer-aided drug discovery having spent fifteen years applying computational chemistry approaches in pharma and consumer product organizations. ORCID: 0000-0003-2401-4223 Derk Arts has over 12 years of experience in medicine, research and data management, and has been involved in several projects integrating complex and diverse data sources. He received his MD from Vrije University in 2011 and his PhD on decision support and machine learning from the University of Amsterdam in 2016. During his MD training, Dr. Arts identified a major problem in medical research. Due to the unavailability of affordable, user-friendly data capture tools, researchers were deviating to non-compliant alternatives that reduce data quality, security, and reusability, and greatly increase waste. To solve these core issues, he founded Castor, a research platform that enables researchers to easily capture, standardize and reuse medical research data. The platform is currently serving thousands of clinical studies, both commercial and academic, and has been integrated with EPIC and other EMR systems, using HL7 FHIR. Castor is capable of generating machine readable data, which is one of the most promising capabilities for eClinical systems. ORCID: 0000-0001-5702-5856