RADAR Poster at the 3. FAIR Digital Objects (FDO) Conference 2026, Wien

Published: 24.03.2026

From 24. - 27. March, the RADAR team will participate in the 3. FAIR Digital Objects (FDO) Conference 2026 at TU Wien. The conference brings together international experts from academia and industry to discuss current developments in FAIR Digital Objects and their practical implementation in global data ecosystems.

The event offers a diverse program including keynotes, panels, poster sessions, lightning talks, and tutorials. It addresses data stewards, infrastructure providers, researchers, and policy makers alike and builds on previous editions that focused on definitions and implementations — this year with an even stronger emphasis on practical applications and technical developments.

RADAR will present a poster titled “Advancing FAIR Digital Objects in RADAR: RO-Crate Integration, Machine-Actionable Access, and AI-Support for Metadata Annotation and FAIRness Assessment”.

It demonstrates how RADAR is evolving into a more machine-actionable and interoperable repository service. The focus lies on recent software enhancements: access to individual files and folders via streaming directly from the .tar archive (available since December 2025), as well as (planned for upcoming software releases) the integration of the RO-Crate standard for providing structured, machine-readable metadata and the introduction of DOI-based fragment identifiers for unambiguous referencing and direct access to individual files within a dataset. This enables granular, persistent access to data objects, significantly improving their citability, machine reusability, and interoperability in line with FDO principles.

We look forward to engaging discussions, new collaborations, and sharing insights with the FDO community in Vienna!