Onboard your data

6 steps to onboard your data

Data onboarding steps

Explore the complete data user journey: from searching for and finding data to requesting and processing it in a Secure Processing Environment (SPE).

  Data holders' journey

1. Onboarding request

To onboard your metadata, contact us at servicedesk@health-ri.nl. A Health-RI contact will guide you through the process.

Guide to request for onboarding

2. Intake

The Health-RI contact will ask for details about your data and resources. If needed, a meeting can be arranged to discuss further. We’ll also help connect you with any related onboarding efforts within your institute or node.

Guide to onboarding intake

3. Planning

In this stage, you will explore the onboarding process and plan a strategy. The resulting strategy should be scalable and ideally usable for multiple data holder/provider when possible (ie. institute level onboarding)

Planning strategy for onboarding

Define access conditions

4. Implementation

Upon deciding on a strategy for the onboarding of the (meta)data, you need to implement the plan

Guide to implement onboarding  

Assess availability of your metadata

Apply metadata model  

Transform and expose FAIR metadata

5. Harvesting

To harvest the exposed metadata you contact the Health-RI service desk with an onboarding request and include the details of the FAIR Data Point to harvest by sending an email to: servicedesk@health-ri.nl. Health-RI then performs the harvesting

Guide to harvest onboarding

6. Onboarded

If the metadata is approved by you it is then onboarded to the Data Catalogue. 

If you need any help or need more information contact our servicedesk.