Sprecher
Beschreibung
Managing (meta-)data across interdisciplinary research collaborations
often involves using a variety of software tools for storage and
sharing. Maintaining data accessibility and synchronization between
different sites, working groups, and institutes presents a significant
challenge. We developed a solution based on the open source software
LinkAhead that combines meta data from different repositories into a
single research data management system (RDMS). The meta data import
tool was created using the extensible crawler framework provided by
LinkAhead. This enables us to import meta data from four different
repositories and ELN systems used by the Cluster of Excellence 3D
Matter Made to Order (3DMM2O). Where possible, APIs of repositories
and ELNs can be used to directly upload meta data entries from
LinkAhead (e.g., via export to DataCite XMLs). This allows
(semi-)automatic workflows, such as described in the following
example:
- A researcher enters meta data in an ELN
- These are imported into LinkAhead by the crawler (possibly enriched
by data from other sources) - They can be sent directly to a repository for publication.
In addition, the RDMS is built in a way that data models and
crawler definitions can also be extended and adapted to future
requirements by the researchers at any time. Its basic functionality
contains a graphical web-interface, as well as an API for automated
queries which provides intuitive searching and querying and using meta
data from all linked systems.
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