Data Stewardship for Open Science ― Implementing Fair Principles

Data Stewardship for Open Science: Implementing FAIR Principles has been written with the intention of making scientists, funders, and innovators in all disciplines and stages of their professional activities broadly aware of the need, complexity, and challenges associated with open science, modern science communication, and data stewardship. The FAIR principles are used as a guide throughout the text, and this book should leave experimentalists consciously incompetent about data stewardship and motivated to respect data stewards as representatives of a new profession, while possibly motivating others to consider a career in the field.

Barend Mons is a molecular biologist by training (PhD, Leiden University, 1986) and spent over 15 years in malaria research. After that he gained two decades of experience in computer-assisted knowledge discovery, which is still his research focus at the Leiden University Medical Centre.