FAIR Digital Objects research and adoption: Let's pretotype

In the NFDI4DS project, as part of the “Research Knowledge Graphs” task area, there is already a recommendation to share tasks across measures via working groups that could start as soon as possible with the project realization. In this context, we can target an artifact collection and model it via FDOs. This should give us the means to explore the adoption of this model, as well as the assumptions or issues we will face in the process, something that we can, in turn, give feedback to the FDO forum.

This exploration should provide us insights about adopting FDOs as our model of choice for representing research artifacts. In the process, we aim to assess whether this idea is the right one, whether there is a community that will engage in their realization and, ultimately, if there will be a commitment from the industry to invest in them if these will be proposed. To cope with the above, it is worth considering the concept of pretotyping as a tool.