Since their introduction by James Dixon in 2010,data lakes get more and more attention,driven by the promise of high reusability of the stored data due to the schema-on-read semantics.Building on this idea,several add...Since their introduction by James Dixon in 2010,data lakes get more and more attention,driven by the promise of high reusability of the stored data due to the schema-on-read semantics.Building on this idea,several additional requirements were discussed in literature to improve the general usability of the concept,like a central metadata catalog including all provenance information,an overarching data governance,or the integration with(high-performance)processing capabilities.Although the necessity for a logical and a physical organisation of data lakes in order to meet those requirements is widely recognized,no concrete guidelines are yet provided.The most common architecture implementing this conceptual organisation is the zone architecture,where data is assigned to a certain zone depending on the degree of processing.This paper discusses how FAIR Digital Objects can be used in a novel approach to organize a data lake based on data types instead of zones,how they can be used to abstract the physical implementation,and how they empower generic and portable processing capabilities based on a provenance-based approach.展开更多
基金funding by the"Niedersachsisches Vorab"funding line of the Volkswagen Foundation.
文摘Since their introduction by James Dixon in 2010,data lakes get more and more attention,driven by the promise of high reusability of the stored data due to the schema-on-read semantics.Building on this idea,several additional requirements were discussed in literature to improve the general usability of the concept,like a central metadata catalog including all provenance information,an overarching data governance,or the integration with(high-performance)processing capabilities.Although the necessity for a logical and a physical organisation of data lakes in order to meet those requirements is widely recognized,no concrete guidelines are yet provided.The most common architecture implementing this conceptual organisation is the zone architecture,where data is assigned to a certain zone depending on the degree of processing.This paper discusses how FAIR Digital Objects can be used in a novel approach to organize a data lake based on data types instead of zones,how they can be used to abstract the physical implementation,and how they empower generic and portable processing capabilities based on a provenance-based approach.