E!DAL
| Original author(s) | IPK Gatersleben |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Dr. Daniel Arend, Jinbo Chen, Denny Hecht, Dr. Matthias Lange, Juliane Wylie |
| Initial release | October 2013 (Version 2.2.25) |
| Stable release | 2.5.7
|
| Repository | BitBucket |
| Engine | |
| Operating system | plattformübergreifend |
| Available in | Java |
| Type | Infrastucture-Software-Tool |
| License | Creative Commons 4.0 |
| Website | edal.ipk-gatersleben.de |
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The electronic Data Archive Library (e!DAL) API is a JVM-based software framework for maintaining, publishing, and sharing research data. e!DAL stands for electronic data archive library. Its main features are version and metadata management, information retrieval, registration of persistent identifiers, and an embedded webserver for public data access.
eDAL[1] is open source and developed at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) in Gatersleben, Germany. It applies a "bring the infrastructure to the data" (I2D) approach and fulfills the FAIR data principles—findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable.
Features
e!DAL provides a comprehensive set of functions to guarantee long-term stable storage of research data.
- Data Submission & Review: An integrated data submission tool supports users during the upload and description of their data before initializing the embedded review procedure.
- Information Retrieval: An automatic index engine provides powerful and fast search functionality.
- Comprehensive Report: A dynamically generated report provides several key performance indicators.
- Data Linkage: e!DAL supports JSON-LD, Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, and ORCID to link the stored data sets with global services.
- Metadata & Version Tracking: eDAL tracks the complete version history and metadata of every stored data set.
- Persistent Identifiers: e!DAL can assign different types of persistent identifiers like Digital Object Identifiers.
Use Cases
- software library: The e!DAL API and reference implementation can be integrated as a Java library or by using common build management tools like Apache Maven or Gradle into JVM-based software.
- On-premise: e!DAL can be used locally as a comprehensive storage and archiving back-end for research data.
- Client-server: e!DAL provides a server-client architecture which allows setting up a centralized repository infrastructure allowing several clients to share and publish research data; data submission client.
- GUI: The client component provides an intuitive graphical desktop application to upload, describe, and publish research data by assigning persistent identifiers.
Maven Artifact (available in the Central Maven Repository)
<project>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>de.ipk-gatersleben</groupId>
<artifactId>eDAL-MetaDataAPI | eDAL-MetaDataAPI-Server | eDAL-MetaDataAPI-Client</artifactId>
<version>CURRENT_VERSION</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>
Gradle Build Management
repositories {
mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
compile 'de.ipk-gatersleben:eDAL-MetaDataAPI:CURRENT_VERSION'
compile 'de.ipk-gatersleben:eDAL-MetaDataAPI-Server:CURRENT_VERSION'
compile 'de.ipk-gatersleben:eDAL-MetaDataAPI-Client:CURRENT_VERSION'
}
Repositories
There are different repositories which use the eDAL infrastructure software as a backend.
- The e!DAL Plant Phenomics and Genomics Research Data Repository[2]
- Jülich Plant Phenotyping Center (JPPC)
References
- ↑ Arend, Daniel; Lange, Matthias; Chen, Jinbo; Colmsee, Christian; Flemming, Steffen; Hecht, Denny; Scholz, Uwe (2014). "e!DAL - a framework to store, share and publish research data". BMC Bioinformatics. 15 (1): 214. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-15-214. ISSN 1471-2105. PMC 4080583. PMID 24958009.
- ↑ Arend, Daniel; Junker, Astrid; Scholz, Uwe; Schüler, Danuta; Wylie, Juliane; Lange, Matthias (16 April 2016). "PGP repository: a plant phenomics and genomics data publication infrastructure". Database. 2016 (baw033): baw033. doi:10.1093/database/baw033. PMC 4834206. PMID 27087305.
External links
- official e!DAL website
- eDAL source code and issue management
- official website of the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK)
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