Task Area 2 - Standards & policies
This TA is dedicated to facilitating and stimulating data sharing and re-use by supporting easy and open access to microbial and associated data, following the FAIR data principles. To this end, the consortium will establish the following Measures (M):

Measures
- M2.1 – Data & Metadata Standards (Promoting the use of relevant data and metadata requirements.)
- M2.2 – Experimental Procedure Standards (Promoting the use of appropriate experimental protocols.)
- M2.3 – Workflow Standards (Promoting the use of suitable analytical approaches.)
- M2.4 – Policies and legal issues for data management and re-use (Ensuring open access, reproducibility, consistency, transparency, and interoperability.)