FAIR-EASE - D4.3 Status and expectations of the FAIR-EASE data lake

This document gives an elaborate status overview of the FAIR-EASE project activities
surrounding the "Data Lake" objective of WP4 as described in the architecture layout
provided by deliverable "D4.1 -Landscaping exercise: the (meta)data, software, and cloud
needs for the data lake". It re-affirms the vision and component abstraction from that
document and describes how that is getting effectively implemented and deployed, including
an extensive listing of the evaluated and applied technologies. It also provides links to the
activities in the neighbouring technical work-packages:

• "D2.4 -FAIR-EASE Data Discovery and Access Service -First Release", from WP2 on the
  directory and access service
  - and "D3.1 -Specifications of FAIR-EASE Earth Analytics Lab and implementation plan"
• from WP3 on the "Earth Analytical Lab"

We gladly applaud the interdependence of these documents and attribute it to the decision
of the project-office to adopt the "devcycle" strategy to organise the progress in the FAIREASE project. It has proven instrumental in sustaining the dialogue across the work packages.