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CaosDB—Research Data Management for Complex, Changing, and Automated Research Workflows
- Source :
- Data, Vol 4, Iss 2, p 83 (2019), Data, Volume 4, Issue 2
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- We present CaosDB, a Research Data Management System (RDMS) designed to ensure seamless integration of inhomogeneous data sources and repositories of legacy data in a FAIR way. Its primary purpose is the management of data from biomedical sciences, both from simulations and experiments during the complete research data lifecycle. An RDMS for this domain faces particular challenges: research data arise in huge amounts, from a wide variety of sources, and traverse a highly branched path of further processing. To be accepted by its users, an RDMS must be built around workflows of the scientists and practices and thus support changes in workflow and data structure. Nevertheless, it should encourage and support the development and observation of standards and furthermore facilitate the automation of data acquisition and processing with specialized software. The storage data model of an RDMS must reflect these complexities with appropriate semantics and ontologies while offering simple methods for finding, retrieving, and understanding relevant data. We show how CaosDB responds to these challenges and give an overview of its data model, the CaosDB Server and its easy-to-learn CaosDB Query Language. We briefly discuss the status of the implementation, how we currently use CaosDB, and how we plan to use and extend it.
- Subjects :
- FOS: Computer and information sciences
Information Systems and Management
Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence
Computer science
0206 medical engineering
02 engineering and technology
Query language
03 medical and health sciences
Software
Computer Science - Databases
RDMS
database
030304 developmental biology
FAIR
0303 health sciences
business.industry
Databases (cs.DB)
Data structure
Data science
Automation
lcsh:Z
Computer Science Applications
Variety (cybernetics)
lcsh:Bibliography. Library science. Information resources
Workflow
Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
Data model
13. Climate action
Management system
ACID
research data management
business
020602 bioinformatics
Information Systems
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Data, Vol 4, Iss 2, p 83 (2019), Data, Volume 4, Issue 2
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c8875edc5712935f8ef805ce0e18e2ab