FDO Startup Testbed

According to Wikipedia a testbed is a platform for conducting rigorous, transparent, and replicable testing of scientific theories, computing tools, and new technologies. In the FDO One project a few first repositories will be integrated to an FDO domain by providing adapters and an FDO Manager is being developed that allows to manipulate FDOs in these repositories which includes typical operations such as create, delete, copy, move, etc. It should be noted that some of these operations only require changes of the FDO Record, i.e., when for example the data of an FDO is being copied to another location, an additional reference needs to be added.

We foresee two types of ingestions which need to be supported by the basic infrastructure: (1) a known repository has additional FDOs that should be integrated which means especially to add their metadata to the portal. (2) A new repository adopts the FDO standard and makes its data available which requires in addition to verify that the repository adapter indeed fulfils the FDO specifications. In the FDO One project adapters for four different repository systems were developed to create a first startup testbed amongst which is also an adaptor to a cloud system.