Concept for preservation and reuse of genome and biomedical imaging research data

The German Research Foundation (DFG) recommends preserving research data for at least ten years. The DFG funded project LABIMI/F establishes an infrastructure for preservation, retrieval and reuse of biomedical research data based on grid/cloud computing technology for two applications a) genome and b) imaging data. The requirements for this infrastructure were determined during workshops with relevant stakeholders. Afterwards product evaluations were conducted and the relevant products were integrated into the infrastructure concept. In this paper, we address the suitability of our solution concerning the fulfillment of the requirements. It is shown that the solution satisfies five of the eight requirement categories completely and the other three categories partly. Furthermore, in order to prove the adherence to the widely accepted Open Archival Information System (OAIS) standard, we successfully performed a mapping of our technical components to the functional entities of the OAIS.