1.a Expose your local system
- Kees Burger
- Lucie Kulhankova
- Xiaofeng Liao
- Ana Konrad
Introduction
Enabling your institute's local system to directly expose metadata creates the strongest connection between your original data and publicly available information. This setup means that responsibility for maintaining this metadata is kept at the source, whether handled by software or people. Achieving this requires either a system already supporting this feature or deep knowledge of the source system and the availability of software engineering capacity to extend the functionality of the system.
When considering sharing your data with the public, think about using local systems like MOLGENIS. These systems establish a direct pathway between your original data and public information, ensuring that you're in charge of managing your data within your institute.
Explanation
To facilitate this process, ensure that the systems in your institute support extensions for displaying metadata from your existing data sources. If your system lacks this capability, you can2.a Automate export from your local system as an alternative.
MOLGENIS implementation of the FDP extension.
MOLGENIS partly supports the FAIR principles, including the FAIR Data Point (FDP) extension. The FDP implementation within MOLGENIS EMX2 complies with the latest v1.1 specification of the FAIR Data Point. This means that MOLGENIS allows you to establish a connection with a FAIR Data Point. For setup and configuration instructions, please refer to the MOLGENIS documentation.
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Other implementations of Fair Data Point
There are several FAIR Data Point implementations in existence:
The reference implementation as described above.
The MOLGENIS software supports the FAIR Data Point protocol.
Castor currently supports a previous version.
The Netherlands eScience Center have their own implementation.
The SURF Data Repository implements the protocol.
RD-Nexus implements the protocol.
LOVD implements the protocol.
X-omics initiative develope a FAIR Data Infrastructure, FAIR Data Cube, which contains a enhanced FAIR Data Point as a main component in terms of its search and ranking capability.
Pros / Cons
Pro
Responsibility of maintenance lies closest to the owner(s) of the source material
Con
Requires extension of existing tooling
Next steps
If you have an FDP and compliant metadata (4B Exposing metadata ) you can now enter the metadata into your FDP 2. Data entry into an FDP .
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