BagIt Research Data (BIRD)

Using FAIR metadata to share the actual research data

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This is a demonstration project inspired by the BagIt standard for storage and network transfer of arbitrary digital content, including research data.

With research datasets represented as “Bags” with metadata in the bag-info.txt file, and the pointers to the actual data files on a download server listed in the fetch.txt file, writing a repository server becomes relatively simple. This project is an exploration into such a research data repository server.

At this moment it only includes a few examples with the BagIt metadata format; most of the examples here use various metadata schemas from other repositories. In the future I can imagine that tools could be implemented to convert the repository specific metadata (and manifest file list) to the BagIt specification.

BagIt datasets

Radboud datasets

Zenodo datasets

OpenNeuro datasets

DataverseNL datasets

Yoda datasets

4TU datasets