HMC developed Tools & Services

The road to FAIR data is not always an easy one. Our units are developing and maintaining new software tools and services that will facilitate FAIR handling of research data.

Here you can find an overview of tools and services already available by HMC. You can search through them using keywords or filter them using the tags listed below.

Tag	Description
library	Programming libraries implementing a certain standard or a set of functionalities, which can be used in own software projects.
tool	A software which can be used standalone on the local computer to solve a certain task, either via command line or graphical user interface.
infrastructure component	A software, typically self-hosted on web-, institutional-, or lab-level, which can be used as part of an infrastructure to address a certain aspect of research data management. Infrastructure components typically offer machine-readable interfaces, in some cases accompanied by generic graphical user interfaces.
web service	Services that are centrally hosted and offered via a graphical interface in the world wide web.
document	Human-readable descriptions of good practices, processes, and guidelines, either provided as a Web page or as a document for download.

Please refer to each tools’ documentation to evaluate fitness for your specific application.

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base-repo

The base-repo is a generic, general purpose research data repository service offering clear, machine-actionable RESTful interfaces for storing, retrieving, and managing research data.

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Collection Registry

The Collection Registry allows building collections of digital objects, independent of any repository to facilitate data interoperability, reuse and make collections actionable to be able to cope with ever-increasing amounts and volumes of data.

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Data Collections Explorer

The Data Collections Explorer is an information system for the engineering community to facilitate research of domain specific repositories and databases, as well as datasets published individually by research groups.

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DirSchema

DirSchema is a metadata specification and validation tool that enforces structural metadata requirements in local datasets. Research groups can use DirSchema during dataset preparation in order to harmonize and enrich datasets across groups. This increases machine interpretability and reusability, e.g. ease of (automatic) data analysis or metadata harvesting pipelines.

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FAIR DO CookBook

This collection of small recipes offers guidance and advice on different aspects related to FAIR DOs.

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FAIR DO Lab

The FAIR DO Lab is a configurable structure of services to fulfill generic FAIR Digital Object (FAIR DO) use cases. As the FAIR DO Lab is easy to run on local computers and its default configuration offers a sandboxed PID service, it is therefore also suited to serve developers as a testing environment.

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FAIR-DOscope

FAIR-DOscope is an easy-to-use, generic FAIR Digital Object viewer and browser accepting PIDs of FAIR DOs and presenting the associated PID record in a graphical and user-friendly way.

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Metadata Standards Catalog

The Metadata Standards Catalog is an information platform for users looking for metadata standards and metadata tools fitting their needs. With more than 100 metadata standards and around 80 tools the catalog offers a perfect start into the field of research data management.

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METADOR

Metador provides a web-based structured submission interface for systematically sharing structured metadata alongside research data in direct collaborations. Use Metador to (1) predefine the metadata requirements for a specific dataset, (2) validate entered metadata against a schema, (3) associate your research data files with structured (JSON) metadata.

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MetaStore

MetaStore is a metadata repository that greatly simplifies the management of large volumes of metadata documents. Furthermore, the stored metadata documents can be versioned, retrieved and searched.

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PIDA

PIDA is a service providing unique persistent URLs (PURLs) for referencing digital assets on the web. Using our service will help you to ensure that your digital assets remain findable and can be accessed reliably by both humans and machines in the long term.

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ro-crate-java

ro-crate-java enables the safe creation and modification of research packages following the RO-Crate specification. These packages allow the machine-readable and human-readable description and documentation of research, making it FAIR.

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Typed PID Maker

The Typed PID Maker is an entry point to integrate digital resources into the FAIR DO ecosystem. It allows creating, modifying, and validating PIDs with typed information or retrieving typed information by their PID. It offers sandboxed PIDs for testing, as well as real Handle PIDs.

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Web Annotation Protocol Server

The Web Application Protocol server allows creating and managing annotations following the Web Annotation Data Model (WADM) specified by the World Wide Web Consortium (w3c).

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