1. IDRP: The first distributed data management infrastructure for nanoscience
Rossella Aversa
Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT) – Steinbuch Center for Computing (SCC)
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) – Istituto di Officina dei Materiali (IOM)
RDA's 13th Plenary Meeting, Philadelphia, US
RDARI IG Meeting April 3rd, 2019

2. The NFFA project
Nano Foundries and Fine Analysis, for multidisciplinary research at the nanoscale
EU-funded project, led by CNR-IOM (Trieste)
20 partners providing access through institutions (Transnational Access)
Image credits:
nffa.eu

3. chittagongit.com, pixabay.com
The previous workflow
Proposal
Proposal
Facility A
Facility B
Data
Data
Image credits:
chittagongit.com, pixabay.com

4. The aims of the system
Offer an architecture for multi-institutional collaborations
Register (or store) the high volume/variety of data generated at the NFFA facilities
Identify and organize metadata associated to scientific data
Make scientific data accessible and searchable by means of a metadata search engine
Educate to provide FAIR data

5. freepik.com, chittagongit.com
The NFFA workflow
Proposal
Information and Data Repository Platform
Facility A
Facility B
Data
Local storage
Data
Local storage
Image credits:
freepik.com, chittagongit.com

6. flaticon.es, freepik.com, icons-for-free.com
The NFFA platform
NFFA Portal
IDRP
Publication
Local Storage
Data Analysis
Facilities
Image credits:
flaticon.es, freepik.com, icons-for-free.com

7. The NFFA portal
NFFA Portal
User registration
Proposal submission

8. The NFFA portal
portal.nffa.eu

9. The IDRP
NFFA Portal
IDRP
Single-sign-on
Metadata registration

10. Metadata The IDRP includes the relevant (searchable) information:
Proposal, instruments, people involved…
Basic Metadata

11. Metadata Standard for Nanoscience Data
Basic metadata model developed by Science and Technology Facility Council (STFC)
Presented at RDA Plenary in Berlin (April 2018) within the Research data needs of the Photon and Neutron Science community IG ( infrastructure-interoperability-ig.html)
Follows common metadata standards
Defines common terminology and proposal execution workflow in nanoscience

12. Metadata at IDRP

13. Local storage
NFFA Portal
IDRP
Local Storage
Facilities

14. Local storage: issues nomad-repository.eu datashare.nffa.eu
materialscloud.org

15. Local storage: issues Difficult for the distributed infrastructure:
Different interfaces, no common metadata schema: not totally interoperable
Different authentication methods: not easily accessible
Not all using global PIDs: not totally findable
No common agreement on data types
On the other hand:
Data in the local storage can be enriched with new domain-specific metadata

16. Metadata The IDRP includes the relevant (searchable) information:
Proposal, instruments, people involved…
Instrument information (for reproducibility)
Basic Metadata
Associated Metadata

17. Data Analysis
NFFA Portal
IDRP
Local Storage
Data Analysis
Facilities

18. Data Analysis
X-SOCS (ESRF)
SEM (CNR-IOM)
sem-classifier.nffa.eu

19. Metadata The IDRP includes the relevant (searchable) information:
Proposal, instruments, people involved…
Instrument information (for reproducibility)
Scientific analysis
Basic Metadata
Associated Metadata
Domain-specific Metadata

20. Metadata registration

21. Local storage: NFFA proposed implementation
IDRP offers:
interfaces for registering/uploading data
import from local storage:
downloading from local storage
registering the URL

22. Metadata registration at IDRP
idrp.nffa.eu

23. Data publication Open access at IDRP
Assign a DOI through an external service
b2share.eudat.eu

24. Data publication
idrp.nffa.eu

25. Data publication
idrp.nffa.eu

26. The aims of the system
Offer an architecture for multi-institutional collaborations
Register (or store) the high volume/variety of data generated at the NFFA facilities
Identify and organize metadata associated to scientific data
Make scientific data accessible and searchable by means of a metadata search engine
Educate to provide FAIR data

27. F A I R Achieved points Metadata indexed in a searchable resource
(Meta)data “internally“ published and/or global persistent identifier assigned
Standardized data access to all the facilities
(Meta)data permanently registered at IDRP
Basic metadata model for Nanoscence data
Common implementation for associated and domain-specific metadata registration F A I R

28. Connections within RDA
Repository Platforms for Reseach Data IG (
Domain Repositories IG (
RDA/CODATA Materials Data, Infrastructure & Interoperability IG (
Vocabulary Services IG (
Research data needs of the Photon and Neutron Science community IG (
Research Data Repository Interoperability WG (
International Materials Resource Registries WG (