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Description
The OSCARS project represents a unique European collaboration that unites Research Infrastructures across the European Science Clusters (SCs) representing the key domains: environmental research, physics and astronomy, photon and neutron, social, and life sciences. At its core, OSCARS focuses on promoting open science and FAIR data principles and addresses this challenge by three primary objectives: consolidation of existing research data services, engagement with a broad network of stakeholders, and the uptake of open science principles.
The consolidation workpackage focuses on interoperability and introducing novel functionalities by metadata enrichment of existing services. One of the key opportunities of the Photon and Neutron community (PaNOSC) is providing Direct DOI Dataset Access (D3A). This initiative is standardizing the access to data directly with the DOI assigned to it. Currently, several platforms offer data storage with a minted DOI, however without a solution for automatic download (other than proprietary). We have successfully developed a proof-of-concept code based on existing approaches (HTTP content-negotiation; metalink). This involves a mixture of modifying existing production software, like the fsspec python module, and developing new code to build a demonstration of the benefits of this approach. Ultimately, D3A can help advance FAIR data practices and interdisciplinary research.
