Definition: Data and metadata availability through standardised mechanism and ensure its long-term availability Data retrieval should be mediated without specialised or proprietary tools or communication methods. This principle focuses on how data and metadata can be retrieved from their identifiersDatasets tend to degrade or disappear over time because there is a cost to maintaining an online presence for data resources. When this happens, links become invalid and users waste time hunting for data that might no longer be there. Then, metadata should persist even when the data are no longer sustained. Barriers to access that should be avoided include protocols that have limited implementation, poor documentation and components that require human manual intervention. For sensitive data, it is perfectly FAIR to provide an email, phone number or contact person who can discuss access to the data.Metadata must be treated at the same level as data, using the proper formats, and reusing relevant vocabularies that ensure its long-term availability. "" Source: FAIR Principles Source reference: https://www.go-fair.org/fair-principles/ Last modification: 2024-01-17 Identifier: http://data.europa.eu/2sa/elap/data-accessibility LOST view: TVA-Functional Architecture Principles EIRA concept: eira:ArchitectureBuildingBlock ABB name: elap:data-accessibility Title: Data Accessibility EIF Layer: N/A ABB Specialised: eira:EuropeanLibraryofArchitecturePrinciplesPrinciple