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 ## F.A.I.R compliance
 
-Having a unique identifier and rich metadata that describe the digital object are the most essential part on how to achieve "fairness". We associated a DOI to the repository by using [Zenodo](https://zenodo.org/).
+Having a unique identifier and rich metadata that describe the digital object are the most essential part on how to achieve "fairness". We associated a D.O.I (digital object identifier) to the repository by using [Zenodo](https://zenodo.org/).
 In order to retrieve the metadata of this Github repository, you can type its name in the searchbox of [datamed.org](https://datamed.org/). 
 
 ### Resources on F.A.I.R guidelines