FAIR Digital Objects for Structured Scientific Data: Concepts for Sustainable Registration, Discovery and Reuse
摘要
The increasing complexity and volume of simulation and experimental data in engineering and scientific domains demand robust strategies for data structuring, publication, and long-term accessibility. This contribution proposes a framework for encapsulating structured scientific data in FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) digital objects, registered in publicly accessible databases, and hosted in institutional or domain-specific repositories with persistent identifiers and long-term availability. At the data level, the approach leverages JSON Schema to formally describe the structure of scientific data in a standardized, human-readable and machine-actionable format. Where applicable, these schemas can be extended to JSON-LD using domain ontologies, enabling semantic interoperability. At the metadata level, a knowledge graph is constructed using established standards such schema.org , enriched with schema-specific descriptors to support fine-grained discovery and filtering of data objects. The paper discusses the conceptual and technical foundations of this approach and compares it to existing curated global databases, highlighting trade-offs in scalability, maintenance, and openness. Potential applications include the publication of data from round-robin tests, interlaboratory studies, and individual experiments, with the goal of fostering reproducibility, transparency, and community-driven validation. By initiating a discussion on decentralized yet structured scientific data publication, this contribution aims to explore future pathways for sustainable data sharing and reuse in simulation and test-driven research.