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Beschreibung
Following the introduction of the metadata driven ManGO RDM platform at HMC 2025, we present the expansion of this open-source RDM (eco) system. Originally developed at the University of Leuven to facilitate our researchers metadata-driven storage and workflows during the active research phase, ManGO is now starting to see a broader adoption across European institutions and universities. And of course as needs and insights evolve, also the feature set grows accordingly.
As primarily a system aimed at active research data management, ManGO offers tools and services to discover, use and organize data along metadata while it is produced and/or analyzed. In other words before (part of it) is to become part of established and curated datasets.
However, not all data during the active research phase is meant to be published in public archives, but nevertheless must be kept in long term archives. This can be imposed either through legal requirements or policies at the institution level with in any case the option to possibly retrieve it some time in the future. At the University of Leuven the standard RDM policy is to keep relevant research data for at least 10 years after a research project finishes.
To address this, we introduce FriGO, a long-term archiving solution fully integrated into the ManGO architecture. FriGO utilizes a combination of BagIt and RO-Crate specifications to ensure data integrity and standardized metadata packaging. While the bulk data is moved to cost-effective cold storage, the (normally) rich, explicitly defined metadata remains indexed within ManGO’s active storage. This hybrid approach ensures that archived datasets remain searchable and interpretable over many years, directly supporting the "Findable" and "Reusable" pillars of FAIR data management.
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