About UNLOCK FAIR data platform#

The [UNLOCK FAIR data platform] is an interoperable research infrastructure, designed to support microbial research through FAIR data collection, analysis, and storage. It is a core component of the UNLOCK facility.

Why FAIR?#

Online repositories sharing scientific data are vital for the advancement of science. Data sharing improves research transparency, promotes the validation of experimental methods and scientific conclusions, enables data reuse, and facilitates knowledge discovery using new analysis tools. Essential for reusing scientific data is the availability of machine-readable metadata about the scientific experiments conducted with a degree of completeness that reflects the FAIR guiding principles: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable.

Platform components#

At its heart, the FDP consists of three elements:

  • The FAIR Data Station (FAIR-DS): a metadata ingestion platform that helps to improve the quality of metadata. The station allows users to record metadata according to minimum information standards thereby ensuring FAIR scientific data management from the start.

  • iRODS: for computing, data management, and long-term data storage, hosted by Wageningen University & Research (WUR)

  • Containerized applications and workflows: enabling reproducible and scalable data analysis.

To support flexible and meaningful data integration, UNLOCK adopted the Resource Description Framework (RDF) data model. This allows datasets from diverse sources to be linked in a structured, meaningful way using shared semantics.




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