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Using lessons from 27 scientific projects selected via open calls, we demonstrate the efficiency of the EOSC-Life support model for sustainable FAIR data management and explore the complex sustainability needs for sensitive- and industry-related data resources. We describe cross-disciplinary sharing of best practices, and how this contributes to the sustainability of knowledge across communities, through building of training resources. We formulate a set of recommendations, focusing on working with experts, and communicating outcomes, to establish strong credibility and recognition of research projects. Furthermore, demonstrating and practising also permit a more sustainable adoption of reproducible research outputs. Recommended measures include sustainable training methodologies, as well as ensuring high quality metadata to drive the sustainable reusability of scientific objects. Responsibilities and roles to ensure sovereignty, sustainable services and tools must also be attributed. Finally, our analysis demonstrates how data harmonisation facilitates interoperability of tools, data, solutions and a better understanding of concepts, functionalities and semantics in the LSs.</strong>","journal":"Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)","year":2023,"id":2538,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":0,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.0528,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":1,"downloads":2983,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2023-06-20","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":30104,"name":"Jean‐Marie Burel","orcid":"0000-0002-1789-1861","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":30105,"name":"Jean-Karim Hèriché","orcid":"0000-0001-6867-9425","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":30106,"name":"Arina Rybina","orcid":"0000-0002-5609-5710","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":30107,"name":"Pauline Audergon","orcid":"0000-0002-1624-7388","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":18994,"name":"Jan-Willem Boiten","orcid":"0000-0003-0327-638X","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":30108,"name":"Frederik Coppens","orcid":"0000-0001-6565-5145","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":30109,"name":"Sara Crockett","orcid":"0009-0008-7983-0360","position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":30110,"name":"Katrina Exter","orcid":"0000-0002-5911-1536","position":8,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":30111,"name":"Sven Fahrener","orcid":null,"position":9,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":30112,"name":"Maddalena Fratelli","orcid":"0000-0002-1769-3427","position":10,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":2830,"name":"Carole Goble","orcid":"0000-0003-1219-2137","position":11,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":30113,"name":"Philipp Gormanns","orcid":"0000-0001-9823-1621","position":12,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":30114,"name":"Tobias Grantner","orcid":"0000-0001-5104-5004","position":13,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":30115,"name":"Björn Grüning","orcid":"0000-0002-3079-6586","position":14,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":6368,"name":"John M. 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