e!DAL – electronic Data Archive Library

share your data – get visible – keep local control

e!DAL is a free software infrastructure to FAIRly maintain and publish in-house stored research data.

Submission & Reviewing

e!DAL provides a convenient submission tool with an embedded review process and login via ELIXIR AAI to publish research data as DOI citable dataset.

FAIR Compatible

e!DAL supports the FAIR principles and requirements from funding agencies and journals. It supports metadata standards like DublinCore or Schema.org.

Information Retrieval

e!DAL comprises several powerful and index-based search functions, which allow efficient information retrieval over the metadata.

Comprehensive Reporting

e!DAL provides comprehensive reporting of key performance indicators such as access counts, data download volume, and client location.

API Support

e!DAL provides a Java compatible API for remote access or a direct tool embedding. The plugin concept enables customization of backend components.

Data Linkage

e!DAL is designed to support JSON-LD, OAI-PMH and ORCID allowing data harvesting and easy linkage across global services.

Version Tracking

e!DAL tracks the version history of all stored data objects to make the whole research process transparent and reproducible.

Integrated HTTP(S) Server

e!DAL contains an embedded web server providing comprehensive pages for public data access including content negotiation and compressed downloads.

Storage Orchestration

e!DAL orchestrates pre-existing local file storage and an embedded metadata database toward a comprehensive, big-data-aware storage backend.