FAIR Digital Objects (FDOs) and Dataverse
Philipp Conzett
Best,
Philipp
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FDO One Results Information Day
17. January 2025
14.00 – 17.00 CET
Registration: https://events.gwdg.de/event/1008/
Goal of the Info Day
The FDO One project finished its official funding period and produced the concrete results we wanted to achieve. The work will be continued in close relationship with the FDO Forum (FDOF) and the project will remain devoted to implement the requirement specifications for FAIR Digital Objects (FDO). Therefore, we intend to present and discuss the results and indicate how the project will continue the work.
Achievements of FDO One
The FDO One project delivered within 8 months
- a first FDO Testbed by adapting 5 different repository systems (Dataverse, LinkAhead, B2Share, Cordra, S3 Object Store) and developing an FDO Manager that allows authorised users to manipulate FDOs within this testbed (create, move, copy, delete, etc.),
- a plan to extend this testbed to an International Testbed by signing MoUs with partners in all regions and running and preparing further activities such as training courses,
- an extension of the testbed by integrating dataspaces operating with industry standards such as I4.0 Asset Administration Shell and IDSA Eclipse Dataspace Components,
- working out a Layered Architecture with FDO as basic layer and data usage control technology such as dataspace connectors as layer on top,
- contributing to the work on FDO Operations and Active FDOs, and
- establishing a roadmap for standardisation in collaboration with DIN.
Program
At this FDO One Info Day Philipp Wieder, Sven Bingert, Peter Wittenburg, and Timm Fitschen will inform
- about the above-mentioned results
- about the use of the existing FDO Infrastructure and its components such as PID system, profile and attribute registries, create and store FDOs, etc.
- about writing FDO adapters and how to join the testbed
- about how to use the infrastructure in applications
- about the possibility to organise training courses etc. on various matters
There will be enough time for Q&A and meetings on specific topics can be organised later in case of requests. The meeting will be hold in the Englisch language.
About FDO One
FDO One was funded by the German Federal Government under the Mission KI program which is being guided by Acatech from 15. January until 15. October 2024. Its general mission was to improve data findability, accessibility, interoperability, reusability (FAIR) and develop a demonstratable use case bridging between dataspaces including the basic FDO infrastructure, the FDO testbed and repository adapters, the elaboration on architectures for the global interoperable dataspace, standardisation road mapping and new emerging concepts.
Data Spaces
Europe invested much effort in developing and propagating the idea of dataspaces and an increasing number of such dataspaces evolved in the research (ESFRI, EOSC, NFDI, etc.) and industry sectors using different sets of regulations and technologies. A special request was to integrate existing dataspaces (Mobility DataSpace), which are based on existing versions of IDSA EDC and I4.0 AAS technologies.
Therefore, it is important to look for technologies that can bridge between all these dataspaces and have mechanisms for establishing data sovereignty built in. For G. Strawn, one of the Internet pioneers, FDOs are the bridge builder for dataspaces, as was the Internet with TCP/IP the bridge between the different computer networks. For him FDOs are the natural extension of the Internet for data to be processed by machines.
FDO One Partners
- GWDG – Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung, Göttingen: The data infrastructure experts
- IndiScale – An SME Göttingen: Experts in data solutions
- DIN – DIN – Deutsches Institut für Normung, Berlin: Experts in standardisation
- FhG ISST & FIT – Fraunhofer Institut für Software- und Systemtechnik, Dortmund, Fraunhofer Institut für Angewandte Informations-Technologie, Birlinghofen: Experts for the IDSA & Eclipse Dataspace Connector technology
- IAT RWTH Aachen University – Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule, Lehrstuhl für Informations-und Automatisierungssysteme, Aachen: Experts for the I4.0 Asset Administration Shell technology
Website
All relevant information about the work of the FDO One project can be found on the website:
All relevant information, especially the requirement specifications, about FDOs can be found on the FDO Forum website which is currently completely being renewed:
Responsibility
Responsible for this flyer and PI of the FDO One project is Prof. Dr. Philipp Wieder (GWDG). Questions can be directed to: sven.bingert [at] gwdg.de.