DuraSpace for FAIRness and Data Protection: DSpace and Fedora

Abstract

With the European Open Science Cloud initiative the concept of FAIR data has become an official recommendation for the European Member States, but the principles are now widely recognized and accepted as guiding principles at a global level. Repositories are a crucial component in the research ecosystem to make sure the FAIR data principles are respected and implemented.

With this paper we want to share with the euroCRIS community that two of the most widely adopted open source repositories, DSpace and Fedora, allow almost 3,000 institutions around the world (the users) to be able to comply with FAIR data principles. We will analyze the 4 different dimensions of FAIRness (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, Reusability) to highlight the features that already comply with the principles and to identify any gaps.