Resources


Technical documentation

See technical documentation for Federated Research for details on federated analytics principles and developer guidance on programmatic usage. 
The federated-research GitHub space  links further to source code and additional documentation.

Publications and outreach

Below are outputs from the Federated Analytics programme and related collaborations, including research papers and presentations.

Michelle Amugi, Rob Baxter, Christian Cole, Carole Goble, Emily Jefferson, Fergus McDonald, Andrew Morris, Philip Quinlan, David Seymour, Jim Smith, Balint Stewart, Simon G. Thompson (2025):
A Federated Architecture for a National Data Library.
Wellcome Trust (report) / DARE UK
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14672004

Christian Cole, Philip Quinlan, Jim Smith, Stian Soiland-Reyes, Simon
Li, Alexander Hambley, Tim Machin, Simon Thompson, Gordon Milligan,
Antony Chuter, Rob Baster (2025):
The TREvolution Profile.
DARE UK / Zenodo (project deliverable)
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15479820

Stian Soiland-Reyes, Stuart Wheater, Thomas Giles, Jonathan Couldridge, Phil Quinlan, Carole Goble (2025):
Five Safes RO-Crate: FAIR Digital Objects for Trusted Research Environments.
International FAIR Digital Objects Implementation Summit 2024, Berlin, Germany, 2024-03-20/–21.
Open Conference Proceedings 5
https://doi.org/10.52825/ocp.v5i.1419


RO-Crate in EOSC-ENTRUST architecture.
EOSC-ENTRUST Architecture work package, 2024-10-07

Stian Soiland-Reyes (2024)

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1st EOSC-ENTRUST Evaluation & Adoption Workshop,  24-25 September 2024, Helsinki

Laia Codó, Phil Quinlan, Stian Soiland-Reyes (2024)

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Potential of ELIXIR cloud methods in EOSC-ENTRUST and HDR UK.
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LIXIR All Hands Meeting 2024 (AHM2024), Uppsala, Sweden, 2024-06-12

Tim Beck, Stian Soiland-Reyes (2024)

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Simone Leo, Michael R. Crusoe, Laura Rodríguez-Navas, Raül Sirvent, Alexander Kanitz, Paul De Geest, Rudolf Wittner, Luca Pireddu, Daniel
Garijo, José M. Fernández, Iacopo Colonnelli, Matej Gallo, Tazro Ohta, Hirotaka Suetake, Salvador Capella-Gutierrez, Renske de Wit, Bruno de
Paula Kinoshita, Stian Soiland-Reyes (2024):
Recording provenance of workflow runs with RO-Crate.
PLOS One 19(9):e0309210
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0309210


RO-Crate: package your research outputs with their metadata.
Research Software Engineering Conference (RSECon 2024), Newcastle, UK, 2024-09-03/–05

Eli Chadwick, Stian Soiland-Reyes (2024)

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Potential of ELIXIR cloud methods in EOSC-ENTRUST and HDR UK.
ELIXIR All Hands Meeting 2024 (AHM2024), Uppsala, Sweden, 2024-06-12

Tim Beck, Stian Soiland-Reyes (2024)

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FAIR Digital Research Objects: Metadata Journeys.
University of Auckland: Centre for eResearch, Auckland, New Zealand, 2024-02-16

Carole Goble (2024)

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Handling Health Data: FAIR Research Objects for Trusted Research Environments.
eResearch New Zealand 2024: eResearch New Zealand 2024 (Keynote). Wellington , New Zealand, 2024-02-08

Carole Goble (2024)

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TRE-FX: Core federation services for a federated network of TREs to enable Five Safes analytics, Linking Sensitive Data: Insights from the DARE UK Driver Projects , Webinar, 2024-01-17

Carole Goble, Phil Quinlan (2024)

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Chris Orton, Lara Edwards, David Seymour, Monica Jones, Philip
Quinlan, Simon Thompson, Carole Goble, Jennifer Quint, Aziz Sheikh
(2024):
Data as infrastructure: Systematic data curation addressing fundamental data content differences across the UK.
Conference Proceedings for International Population Data Linkage Conference 2024, Chicago, USA, 2024-09-15/–18.
International Journal of Population Data Science 9(5)
https://doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v9i5.2683

Philip Quinlan, Laia Codó, Jonathan Couldridge, Eugenio Gonzalo
Jimenez, Stian Soiland-Reyes, José María Fernández González, Tim Beck
(2024):
EOSC-ENTRUST D19.1 Deployable Demonstrator of Digital Objects & Workflows Developments.
Zenodo (project deliverable)
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14412863

Tom Giles, Phil Quinlan, Jeroen Belien, Julia Lischke, Laura
Portell-Silva, Salvador Capella-Guiterrez, Reagon Karki, Vasso Kalaitzi,
Enrique Bernal-Delgado Alfonso Valencia, Antje Keppler (2022):
BY-COVID D2.1 – Initial data and metadata harmonisation at domain level to enable fast responses to COVID-19.
Zenodo (project deliverable)
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7017728