E!DAL - a Framework to Store, Share and Publish Research Data

e!DAL (https://edal.ipk-gatersleben.de/) is a lightweight open source software framework for publishing and sharing research data. Its main features are version tracking, metadata management, information retrieval, journal and founding agency proven
registration of persistent identifiers (DOI), an embedded HTTP(S) server for public data access, access as a network file system, and a scalable storage backend (Arend et al. 2014 BMC Bioinformatics).

e!DAL driven repositories, i.e. the Plant Genomics and Phenomics Research Data Repository (http://edal.ipk-gatersleben.de/repos/pgp/), publish already a high number of scientific citable and Data Cite registered research data.

Packaged as standalone JAVA archive or as JAVA-Maven dependency all required data sharing, preservation and publication components are compiled.
It can be executed at any platform to operate an own data publication infrastructure. A data submission tool enables to submit dataset for publication to an e!DAL repository. The embedded but configurable review process ensures beforehand data quality checks. The application can be individually configured as client to existing e!DAL repositories.

e!DAL published data sets are widle diseminated. Beside the registered DOIs, it is e!DAL is accepted as data repository for Nature Publishig Group, is registered in re3data.org, support the OAI-PMH harvesting protocol, push meta data to OpenAIRE and DataCite and make data sets discoverable in web serach engines.

This software demo will show how to set-up an e!DAL instance step by step, show the datat submission process and give some configuration tips.