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FAIRsharing Fig1. The number of metadata standards within each type.
The number of standards, as of Dec 2017; 575 of which are specific to the life, agricultural, environmental, biomedical and health sciences, and 30 are generic and multi-disciplinary. Indicators show the status in their life cycle: ‘Ready’ for use, ‘In Development’, ‘Uncertain’ when any attempt to reach out to the developing community has failed, and ‘Deprecated’ when available the reason is detailed in the deprecated record.