Conveners
Coscine – playing FAIR: Coscine – playing FAIR
- Marcel Nellesen (RWTH)
Description
For many researchers an involvement with the FAIR principles does not begin until the publication of an article and the sometimes-obligatory transfer of the research data to a repository. At this point, a significant amount of valuable information about the research project is often already lost. Therefore, only a fraction of the data (and metadata) collected during a research project is ever published. This is a particularly difficult challenge when HPC systems are used, since in this case large amounts of data are generated, analyzed, and transferred. One solution to make research data FAIR from the very beginning of its life cycle is to use a storage environment daily that implicitly implements FAIR principles. To create such a storage environment, the research data management platform Coscine was developed at RWTH Aachen University. Coscine provides an integrated concept for research (meta)data management in addition to storage, management and archiving of research data. To help researchers interact with Coscine through the interfaces and improve integration with existing data management processes, tools, programs, and consultation for the technical adaptation of the platform are provided. This includes the collection or extraction of metadata based on the data or the environment in which it was generated. In this talk, we present the research data management platform Coscine, the underlying storage system and methods for transferring data from and to Coscine.
