Medium Data Management platforms

Life Science

• NextSeek
  • Docker image via dockerfile (root of repository)
  • Wrapper on Seek, so the Seek API is still usable. It seems to be an additional API for NextSeek but we couldn’t find a documentation.
  • Interoperability high: inheriting from Seek interoperability.
  • Mostly cross-domain: should let Seek be configurable.
• Bexis2 DM tool. Research Data management software for BioDiversity
  • Running on ASP, no containerization.
  • API documented internally only, and we could not check it beyond the demo Swagger page. There is an harvesting module following the OAI-PMH protocol, but not updated recently.
  • Interoperability low/medium, seems to be usable mostly from the Web UI and not documented enough for programmatic usage. A clear exposition of the API would help greatly.
  • Fully cross-domain, not restricted in type of data.
• OpenClinica, clinical research EDC platform with an Open Source version
  • No containerization, java-based.
  • Extensive API, well documented
  • Interoperability high: uses well-documented XML for its data format and Json for the API operations.
  • Mostly not cross-domain: built around clinical research. Then the result can be used in other domains.

Extensive API.

• RightField

  • Standalone tool in Java that could be containerized with a little technical effort.
  • Well documented, using standard Excel spreadsheets and standard ontologies formats.
  • Interoperability high: well documented.
  • Fully cross-domain

• JAX BioConnect, “an index of research data that supports data sharing, high-quality curation, and consistent data description”

  • Online
  • Command-line based API, well documented
  • well documented, follow the ISA schema.
  • Not cross-domain: dedicated to bioscience

Documents

• Open Contracts, free and Open Source Document Analytics Platform
  • Docker compose installation
  • It seems to be several ways of integrations, but no simple API,
  • Interoperability medium: usage is well documented, including some integrations, but it seems highly technical and spending time on the documentation is needed.
  • Fully cross-domain: it can be used for any domain.

Bibliography

• ILS, an Integrated Library System, part of the Invenio portfolio (see in Generalists in the Major Platforms)
  • Docker compose installation
  • API, well documented
  • Interoperability HIGH: uses well-documented JSON.
  • Fully cross-domain: it can be used for any domain.

Generalists

• Coscine, COllaborative SCientific INtegration Environment, Research Data Management platform, based on RDS
  • Online only
  • Extensive API, well documented
  • Interoperability HIGH: uses well-documented JSON.
  • Fully cross-domain: it can be used for any domain.