South-Eastern European Data Services

About FORSbase

Brian Kleiner

FORS

SEEDS Workshop II

Ljubljana, 9. -11. February 2016

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Overview

DARIS FORS:

• Research inventory (13,100 project descriptions, 15,600 researchers, 4,250 institutions, 1,950 active users)

• Data catalogue (400 datasets)

Needs:

• Services covering the entire life cycle of research data

• Simplified archiving and publishing

• Simplified access

• Promotion of secondary analysis

• Renewal of the infrastructure

• Integrated workspace for collaborators and researchers

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FORSbase characteristics

• A work environment for social scientists and FORS collaborators

• Support for the entire data life cycle

• Integrated data storage for primary data and metadata

• Data preparation and exchange via standards (DDI etc.)

• OAIS compliant data archive

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FORSbase technical features

• Programming language: Python

• Framework: Django

• Database: MySQL

• File repository: Fedora Commons

• Front-end: HTML5, JQuery, Bootstrap

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Big Picture Inventory & Archive

Future Module

Future Process

Future Module

Personal Workspace

Workspace

Repo- sitory

FORS Workspace

Study Elaboration

Submission Quality

Assurance Publication/A

rchive Search, Browse

Researcher/ Producer

FORS Collaborator Researcher/ Consumer

Repository

Manage Access Ingest

FORS Archive

Project Inventory

Communication, Messaging etc.

NESSTAR Adaptor

Unified Search, Browse, Filter, Access

Download

FORSbase

Users

Processes

Environment

Global Functions

Modules

Compass

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www.seedsproject.ch

Big Picture Inventory & Archive

Future Module

Future Process

Future Module

Personal Workspace

Workspace

Repo- sitory

FORS Workspace

Study Elaboration

Submission Quality

Assurance Publication/A

rchive Search, Browse

Researcher/ Producer

FORS Collaborator Researcher/ Consumer

Manage Access Ingest

FORS Archive

Project Inventory

Communication, Messaging etc.

NESSTAR Adaptor

Unified Search, Browse, Filter, Access

Download

Users

Processes

Environment

Global Functions

Modules

Compass

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Repository

www.seedsproject.ch

Big Picture Inventory & Archive

Future Module

Future Process

Future Module

Personal Workspace

Workspace

Repo- sitory

FORS Workspace

Study Elaboration

Submission Quality

Assurance Publication/A

rchive Search, Browse

Researcher/ Producer

FORS Collaborator Researcher/ Consumer

Manage Access Ingest

FORS Archive

Project Inventory

Communication, Messaging etc.

NESSTAR Adaptor

Unified Search, Browse, Filter, Access

Download

Users

Processes

Environment

Global Functions

Modules

Compass

7

Repository

www.seedsproject.ch

Big Picture Inventory & Archive

Future Module

Future Process

Future Module

Personal Workspace

Workspace

Repo- sitory

FORS Workspace

Study Elaboration

Submission Quality

Assurance Publication/A

rchive Search, Browse

Researcher/ Producer

FORS Collaborator Researcher/ Consumer

Manage Access Ingest

FORS Archive

Project Inventory

Communication, Messaging etc.

NESSTAR Adaptor

Unified Search, Browse, Filter, Access

Download

Users

Processes

Environment

Global Functions

Modules

Compass

8

Repository

www.seedsproject.ch

Big Picture Inventory & Archive

Manage Access Ingest

FORS Archive

Future Module

Future Process

Future Module

Personal Workspace

Workspace

Repo- sitory

FORS Workspace

Study Elaboration

Submission Quality

Assurance Publication/A

rchive Search, Browse

Researcher/ Producer

FORS Collaborator Researcher/ Consumer

Project Inventory

Communication, Messaging etc.

NESSTAR Adaptor

Unified Search, Browse, Filter, Access

Download

Users

Processes

Environment

Global Functions

Modules

Compass

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Repository

www.seedsproject.ch

Big Picture Inventory & Archive

Compass

Manage Access Ingest

FORS Archive

Future Module

Future Process

Future Module

Personal Workspace

Workspace

Repo- sitory

FORS Workspace

Study Elaboration

Submission Quality

Assurance Publication/A

rchive Search, Browse

Researcher/ Producer

FORS Collaborator Researcher/ Consumer

Project Inventory

Communication, Messaging etc.

NESSTAR Adaptor

Unified Search, Browse, Filter, Access

Download

Users

Processes

Environment

Global Functions

Modules

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Repository

www.seedsproject.ch

Big Picture Inventory & Archive

Manage Access Ingest

FORS Archive

Future Module

Future Process

Future Module

Personal Workspace

Workspace

Repo- sitory

FORS Workspace

Study Elaboration

Submission Quality

Assurance Publication/A

rchive Search, Browse

Researcher/ Producer

FORS Collaborator Researcher/ Consumer

Project Inventory

Communication, Messaging etc.

NESSTAR Adaptor

Unified Search, Browse, Filter, Access

Download

Users

Processes

Environment

Global Functions

Modules

Compass

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Repository

www.seedsproject.ch

DEMO

https://forsbase-tst.unil.ch/accounts/login/

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SEEDS Project partners, Lausanne, 2015

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