Ideas for data management and data handling concept for COMPACT

Abstract

The future complex plasma facility COMPACT will allow the investigation of large three-dimensional complex plasmas under microgravity conditions aboard the International Space Station (ISS). COMPACT is a project with international scientific contributions, supported by space agencies (DLR, NASA, ESA) and NSF. Data generated by experiments on the ISS have a considerable value considering the effort needed to repeat an experiment. To maximize the use of the unique data in the scientific community, data management and data handling must be designed sensibly. We have learned from previous projects that it makes sense to deal with this at an early stage. Ultimately, the data must be handled on many levels. We will present ideas for reliable data handling concepts. This should all together form a chain of trust starting in the early stage (during the experiment) and goes on even after paper and data publication. Following as early as possible the FAIR principles creates confidence in the scientific results. Further, concepts based on tools like RIAF and deploy2zenodo are presented. This work is funded by DLR/BMWi (FKZ 50WM2161).