The hasdai program is a community-governed research data infrastructure—like an international data treasury—that is built to outlast changing technologies and budget uncertainties, and to provide resilience against rapidly-evolving security and environmental challenges.
Share continuous investment by the global Open Repositories community in low-cost operation and survival of research data.
Determine where your data is stored, who has access to it, and what they do with it—at all times.
Make research data portable for economic reuse using alternate and future infrastructures.
Knowledge requires permanent foundations: discovery, traceability for independent verification, citation using PIDs for effective reuse, and ongoing enrichment are all based on long-term accessibility.
New research builds on existing knowledge, and on-going enrichment using secure access controls is essential for protecting investment.
hasdai integrates advanced IIIF, OCFL and WADM functionality with secure access controls—enabling research workflows to enrich repository data resources in-situ, and connect data products and source materials using persistent identifiers (PIDs).
Data Futures owns and operates servers and long-term robotic LTO libraries colocated with internationally-distributed partner organizations, including ENS-Lyon and HES-SO. Based on Linux, hasdai is intrinsically resilient in both financial and support expertise terms and supports comprehensive data egress.
The 2018 hasdai Memorandum of Understanding between CERN and Data Futures GmbH defines expanding collaboration to create infrastructures for preservation and dissemination of complex and large research data to complement Zenodo, the European Commission's general-purpose repository.
Open standards and shared investments.
Geographic replication with trusted partners enables short-term fail-over and continuity of service during major technology changes.
Lower operating costs and shared expertise through participation in common, Open Infrastructure.
Built using community-driven technologies—Linux, InvenioRDM, Linear Tape Open (LTO) and OCFL, and international standards—DataCite, IIIF, OAI-PMH and WADM.
hasdai provides uncompromised, community-governed Open Infrastructure for humanity's scientific needs and intellectual legacy.