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A Workflow For Synchronizing FAIR Data Points With Git Repositories

Zaharie, Stefan (2025) A Workflow For Synchronizing FAIR Data Points With Git Repositories.

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Abstract:The FAIR principles: Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reusability have increased in relevance over the past few years, and one of their main use is to promote data-driven scientific research. Solutions such as FAIR Data Points (FDPs) have been proposed to support projects in adhering to these principles through the publication of metadata about currently published digital objects and datasets. However, FDPs focus only on metadata and do not store or archive data itself. Today, many scientific communities adopt online Git-based options as a solution for the publication of scientific resources because of a number of advantages such as easier collaboration, file versioning, and reliable availability. This paper aims to explore a combination of Git-based solutions and FDPs as an architecture that has the purpose of promoting, sharing, and reusing scientific data, where Git serves as a data storage solution, and FDP serves as a metadata storage and discovery solution. To achieve this, we discuss the challenges involved in synchronizing the components of this architecture and the limitations of each of these components. Then, we propose an architecture with FDP and Git as synchronized components. Furthermore, we demonstrate the viability of this solution by developing a synchronization script that supports an existing implementation of this architecture called OntoUML Catalog [10].
Item Type:Essay (Bachelor)
Faculty:EEMCS: Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Subject:54 computer science
Programme:Business & IT BSc (56066)
Link to this item:https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/107828
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