Research Ideas and Outcomes :
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Corresponding author: Thomas Jejkal (thomas.jejkal@kit.edu)
Received: 12 Sep 2022 | Published: 12 Oct 2022
© 2022 Thomas Jejkal, Andreas Pfeil, Jan Schweikert, Anton Pirogov, Pedro Barranco, Florian Krebs, Christian Koch, Gerrit Guenther, Constanze Curdt, Martin Weinelt
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Jejkal T, Pfeil A, Schweikert J, Pirogov A, Barranco PV, Krebs F, Koch C, Guenther G, Curdt C, Weinelt M (2022) Realizing FAIR Digital Objects for the German Helmholtz Association of Research Centres. Research Ideas and Outcomes 8: e94758. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.8.e94758
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The Helmholtz Association (
In doing so, HMC follows the original approach of realizing FAIR DOs based on globally unique, Persistent Identifiers (PID), e.g., provided by https://handle.net/, machine actionable PID Records and strong typing using Data Types like https://dtr-test.pidconsortium.eu/#objects/21.T11148/1c699a5d1b4ad3ba4956 registered in a Data Type Registry, e.g., http://dtr-test.pidconsortium.eu/. In all these areas, HMC can build on the great groundwork of the Research Data Alliance and the FAIR DO Forum. However, when it comes to realization, there are still some gaps that will have to be addressed during our work and will be raised in this presentation.
For single FAIR DO components like PIDs and Data Types, existing infrastructures are already available. Here, the Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG) (
A first step in this direction was made in the context of HMC by agreeing on a Helmholtz Kernel Information Profile (http://dtr-test.pidconsortium.eu/#objects/21.T11148/b9b76f887845e32d29f7). In the concept of FAIR DOs, PID Kernel Information as defined by Weigel et al. (
Hereby, the Helmholtz Kernel Information Profile integrates the recommendations of the RDA PID Kernel Information Working Group (
Currently, a demonstrator is implemented integrating the above components and services, i.e., PID Service, Data Type Registry, and Typed PID Maker. Fig.
In this first version, in a semi-automatic workflow, a user enters a Zenodo (
After implementing this generic workflow, additional mappers supporting other repository platforms will be implemented based on the lessons learned, which will lead to a growing number of FAIR DOs and holds potential for providing significant benefits to scientists, e.g., a central point of contact for research data sets stored in different repositories, machine-actionable identification of relevant datasets, and creation of knowledge graphs representing relationships between data sets, repository platforms, researchers and research organizations.
Furthermore, the gathered experience and its documentation will help others to apply the FAIR DO concept more easily, which will lead to an ever-growing collection of available FAIR DOs with an increasing quality and level of automation at creation time.
Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration Platform, Persistent Identifiers, PID Kernel Information Profile, Demonstrator
Thomas Jejkal
First International Conference on FAIR Digital Objects, presentation