Data Linking Infrastructure
Foundations and Architecture
2019–2025
RFF01
A data linking infrastructure has been developed to support humanities scholars from all research fields of the Cluster of Excellence ‘Understanding Written Artefacts’ such that various kinds of data are easily and systematically combined. In this project very many interdisciplinary projects have been set up in an agile manner. We have achieved the following goals:
- Support for long-term storage of UWA research data in the generic Hamburg Research Data Repository (RDR) equipped with new classes for previewers such that the relevance of UWA data for new research purposes can be evaluated with UWA-related data visualisations.
- Integration of facilities for citing elements of persistent research data in RDR based on UWA-related data visualisation in order to foster scientific exchange. Different datasets are linked such that persistent data can be interpreted from a new perspective.
- Realisation of the FAIR principle over multiple linked datasets based on federated search (enabled with LLM technologies), which is realized by transferring research data of various formats into databases running in the browser of RDR users.
In various agile projects described below the technologies developed in rearch filed F Data Linking are used by various interdisciplinary teams of UWA researchers.
People
Project lead: Ralf Möller
Research Associates: Thomas Asselborn, Marcel Gehrke, Florian Marwitz, Silvia Melzer, Simon Schiff