status: Recognised & Endorsed

Chair (s): Xin Chen, Rainer Stotzka, Robert Quick, Maggie Hellström

Group Email: [group_email]

Secretariat Liaison:


The Data Fabric IG (DFIG) identified that working with data in the many scientific labs and most probably also in other areas such as industry and governance is highly inefficient and too costly. Excellent scientists working on date intensive science tasks are forced to spend about 75% of their time to manage, find, combine and curate data. What a waste of time and capacity. The DFIG is therefore looking at the data creation and consumption cycle to identify opportunities to optimize the work with data, to place current RDA activities in the overall landscape, to look what other rcommunities are doing in this area and to foster testing and adoption of RDA outputs. The goal of DFIG finally is to identify common components and define their characteristics and services that can be used across boundaries in such a way that they can be combined to solve a variety of data scenarios such as replicating data in federations, developing virtual research environments, and automating regular data management tasks. Much important work is being done on data publishing and citation, but DFIG believes that we need to start at early moments in the "Data Fabrics" in the labs to organize, document and manage data professionally if we want to meet the requirements of the coming decades.

  

DFIG is focusing on the data creation and consumption cycle as it happens daily in the scientific and industrial labs and on the identification of ways to make this work more efficiently and thus more cost-effective.

DFIG's goal is to identify common components and define their characteristics and services that can be used across boundaries in such a way that they can be combined to solve a variety of data scenarios.

Throughout its existence, DFIG has shepherded multiple spin-off groups into existence, dealing with specific aspects of the cycle and components involved, particularly regarding Persistent Idenfiers (PIDs), their relevance and applicability to address data referencing and management issues. These efforts have brought forth a new understanding which is summarized in an overview document here.

The group is currently reassessing the overall landscape in trying to identify the next challenges, components or other work areas of interest. An overview is contained in The Future Trends for the Data Fabric.

 

An essential topic of the IG are FAIR Digital Objects, see Wiki page including regular meetings and information material here: 
RDA IG Data Fabric: FAIR Digital Objects 

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September
2023

RDA IG FAIR DO Fabric: Meeting September 28

by Rainer Stotzka

Dear all, We would like to invite to our next meeting of “RDA FAIR Digital Object Fabric IG”. Meeting: 2023, September 28, UTC 15:00 Meeting room: https://kit-lecture.zoom.us/j/64010304690 Meeting ID: 640 1030 4690 In June this year, Stian Soiland-Reyes, Carole Goble, and Paul Groth published a paper Evaluating FAIR Digital Object and Linked Data as distributed object systems https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2306.07436
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18
July
2023

RDA P21 @ IDW 2023 - Notification of Acceptance

by Secretariat Group Account

Dear Chairs of the FAIR Digital Object Fabric IG, Your RDA P21 session application titled FAIR Digital Object Fabric: Shaping the Fabric has been approved. Please consider this your official notification of acceptance. Key dates to keep in mind: * Draft programme to be published on Friday, 28 July * Any requests for changes must be made by Monday, 21 August to ***@***.***-foundation.org * P21 programme will be deemed final by Tuesday, 22 August
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July
2023

RDA IG FAIR DO Fabric: Project Share July 27

by Rainer Stotzka

Dear all, We would like to invite to our next meeting of “RDA FAIR Digital Object Fabric IG”. Meeting: 2023, July 27, UTC 15:00 Meeting room: https://kit-lecture.zoom.us/j/64010304690 Meeting ID: 640 1030 4690 Project share: Revision of the RDA guiding principles on Kernel Information Profiles Presenter: Ulrich Schwardmann, GWDG
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June
2023

FDO and Linked Data comparison (preprint)

by Stian Soiland-Reyes

Hi, (apologies to cross-posting to FDO groups) I've finally submitted to PeerJ CS my FDO / Linked Data comparison paper that I may have mentioned earlier. It is a bit technical looking at protocols etc., as well as showing the many things Linked Data can learn from FDO practices and vice versa. I learnt a lot while writing this! https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2306.07436 Feedback welcome as I probably got many things wrong, can integrate following official peer review.
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23
June
2023

Three FDO events Coming

by Peter Wittenburg

Dear RDA FDO-DF colleagues, in the coming days the FDO Forum will organise three open events which might be of interest for you and your colleagues. More information and the Zoom links can be found here: https://fairdo.org/events/ 28.6.2023 at 13.00 UTC (15.00 CEST)
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23
June
2023

Help defining suitable training topics at the FDO conference

by Peter Wittenburg

Dear FDO-DF colleagues, we are preparing the FDO Conference 2024 which will happen in March 2024 in Berlin. The first announcement to the conference is here: https://fairdo.org/fdo2024-conference/ .
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May
2023

RDA IG FAIR DO: Project Share May 25

by Rainer Stotzka

Dear all, We would like to invite to our next meeting of “RDA FAIR Digital Object Fabric IG”. Working meeting: 2023, May 25, UTC 15:00 Meeting room: https://kit-lecture.zoom.us/j/64010304690 Meeting ID: 640 1030 4690 Agenda: * Project Share [45 min] * Discussion P21 session [15 min] Project share: CLARIN: Interoperability approaches and FDO connections Dieter Van Uytvanck, Technical Director CLARIN ERIC
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17
April
2023

FDO Lecture on Biodiversity Digital Twin on April 21. 2023 at 12:00 UTC / 14:00 CEST

by Peter Wittenburg

Dear FDO Fabric Colleagues, this is a reminder of the open FDO lecture on "The Digital Twin Paradigm for Biodiversity Research Data" on April 21. 2023 at 12:00 UTC / 14:00 CEST with this location: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84730771582 For details see here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z6lPKeUfsDWnUdFgPNmqURR37KLok2nm/view?u... Hope to see many of you. best regards Peter
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17
February
2023

RDA IG FAIR DO: Meeting Feb 23

by Rainer Stotzka

Dear all, We would like to invite to our next working meeting of “RDA FAIR Digital Object Fabric IG”. Working meeting: 2023, February 23, UTC 15:00 Meeting room: https://kit-lecture.zoom.us/j/64010304690 Meeting ID: 640 1030 4690 Agenda: * Report from the RDA cross-fertilisation workshop “RDA for FAIR” * FAIR DO training and web site * RDA Plenary 20 Collaborative notes:
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