IPFS Pinning Service for Open Climate Research Data - NFDI4Earth Incubator 2022 Mid Term Progress

Making data FAIR requires not only trusted repositories but also trusted workflows between data providers and infrastructure providers. Limited data access, unintentional and unnoticed data changes or even (overlooked) data loss pose great challenges to those involved. This incubator project aims to mitigate these challenges by exploring an easy-to-use data management service for researchers based on the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), an emerging distributed web technology, which ensures data authenticity and fault-tolerant remote access. Based on a transferable prototypical implementation to be built within the DKRZ infrastructure, the suitability of the IPFS for a distributed and secure "web" for research data is being examined.