1.a Expose your local system

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 https://molgenis.github.io/molgenis-emx2/#/molgenis/dev_fairdatapoint?id=fair-data-point.

Here is an example of the implementation done at AUMC of a FDP myDRE environment https://health-ri.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FSD/pages/292519963. Radboudumc followed this tutorial in Azurehttps://fairdatapoint.readthedocs.io/en/latest/deployment/production-deployment.html.

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 mapped metadata compliant with the metadta standard (4A Metadata mapping ) within your FDP, the data can be harvested by the National Catalogue: 5. Metadata harvesting .