This step deploys the research object, its alternative representations and any supporting resources to one or more hosting environments that meet the functional, operational, security and preservation requirements of the FAIRification activity.
A hosting environment may be a domain repository, general-purpose repository, institutional service, object store, package registry, version-control platform, workflow repository, catalogue, knowledge-graph platform, secure processing environment or project-operated infrastructure.
The environment from which the research object was obtained may be retained, upgraded or complemented as part of the deployment. Source and target are roles: they may be fulfilled by the same environment, by overlapping services or by different systems.
Deployment does not have to wait until every FAIRification task is complete. Canonical and alternative representations may be deployed iteratively to development, staging or production environments during successive FAIRification cycles.
Research object access
Research object retrieval
Research object deposition
Research object versioning
Research object transfer
Rights and reuse conditions
Privacy and disclosure control
Release management
Research object deposition
Persist, manage, expose and operate research objects, metadata, mappings, alternative representations and supporting services in an environment suitable for their intended uses.
This capability includes selecting or confirming a hosting environment, deploying the required objects and services, and establishing the storage, preservation, discovery, security, operational and sustainability arrangements needed to support them.
The capability may be provided by an external repository, institutional infrastructure, community platform, secure environment, commercial provider or project-operated service. The FAIRification team does not necessarily have to operate the environment itself.
Resources
4 ELIXIR Stories items
- Plant Sciences Community Showcase Cascade mapping from FT 1, 7: hosting capabilities showcased with FAIRDARE
- Galaxy: a story about interoperability Cascade mapping from FT 7: Data hosting, versioning and transfer: all tools are annotated and exportable (workflows, Bioschemas, RO-crate…)
- FAIRtracks: FAIRtracks and Omnipy - FAIRtracks interoperability story Cascade mapping from FT 7: Host your data: Submit to Zenodo, index in Track Hub Registry, discover via TrackFind and interfaces integrated into Galaxy and GSuite
- Metabolomics Community & Interoperability Platform - On which subjects could they collaborate? Cascade mapping from FT 7: Promote/develop MetaboLights as deposition database
4 FAIR Metroline items
- Register resource level metadata Describing hosted resources with sufficient metadata makes them easier to find, understand and reuse.
- Transform and expose FAIR (meta)data Publishing data and metadata in FAIR forms connects hosting to access and reuse.
- Query (use) over resources Search and query functions make hosted resources more usable once they are made available.
- Assess availability of your metadata Checking whether enough metadata is available supports effective hosting and discovery.
7 FAIR Cookbook items
- Depositing to generic repositories - Zenodo use case
- Introducing Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
- Marking up Data pages with Schema.org & Bioschemas for SEO
- Marking up Dataset page with Schema.org & Bioschemas for SEO
- Marking up Data Catalogue page with Schema.org & Bioschemas for SEO
- Building a catalogue of datasets
- Deploying a data catalogue - The IMI data catalogue example
Research object versioning
Identify, relate, preserve and manage changes to deployed research objects and their associated metadata, mappings, representations and services.
This capability allows users and machines to distinguish a changing research object from a particular reproducible version and to understand how versions, releases, components and derived representations relate.
The capability may be provided by a repository, version-control system, package registry, storage service, workflow platform or project-operated versioning process.
Resources
4 ELIXIR Stories items
- Plant Sciences Community Showcase Cascade mapping from FT 1, 7: hosting capabilities showcased with FAIRDARE
- Galaxy: a story about interoperability Cascade mapping from FT 7: Data hosting, versioning and transfer: all tools are annotated and exportable (workflows, Bioschemas, RO-crate…)
- FAIRtracks: FAIRtracks and Omnipy - FAIRtracks interoperability story Cascade mapping from FT 7: Host your data: Submit to Zenodo, index in Track Hub Registry, discover via TrackFind and interfaces integrated into Galaxy and GSuite
- Metabolomics Community & Interoperability Platform - On which subjects could they collaborate? Cascade mapping from FT 7: Promote/develop MetaboLights as deposition database
2 FAIR Metroline items
- Register resource level metadata Metadata that distinguishes and describes different versions is essential for proper versioning.
- Transform and expose FAIR (meta)data Making different FAIR versions of data and metadata visible supports transparent versioning.
2 FAIR Cookbook items
Research object transfer
Move, ingest, synchronise or register research objects and associated information between environments securely, completely and verifiably.
This capability may involve transferring files or packages, migrating databases or object stores, depositing through a repository interface, synchronising environments or registering an object in place without copying it.
Transfer is distinct from retrieval. Retrieval concerns what a user or service can select and receive. Transfer concerns the operational movement or ingestion of research objects between source, staging and target environments.
Transfer is not required where the research object remains in place and the existing environment is upgraded to fulfil the target role.
Resources
5 ELIXIR Stories items
- Plant Sciences Community Showcase Cascade mapping from FT 1, 7: hosting capabilities showcased with FAIRDARE
- Rare Disease Community Interoperability Showcase: examples from EJP RD rich data export options explored
- Galaxy: a story about interoperability Cascade mapping from FT 7: Data hosting, versioning and transfer: all tools are annotated and exportable (workflows, Bioschemas, RO-crate…)
- FAIRtracks: FAIRtracks and Omnipy - FAIRtracks interoperability story Cascade mapping from FT 7: Host your data: Submit to Zenodo, index in Track Hub Registry, discover via TrackFind and interfaces integrated into Galaxy and GSuite
- Metabolomics Community & Interoperability Platform - On which subjects could they collaborate? Cascade mapping from FT 7: Promote/develop MetaboLights as deposition database
2 FAIR Metroline items
- Data access and retrieval Accessing, moving and obtaining data across systems is part of what data transfer needs to support.
- Transform and expose FAIR (meta)data Structuring data and metadata for exchange helps make transfer more FAIR and reusable.