How can we connect equipment data, metadata and repositories?

Use LEAF, or a similar equipment-adapter setup, to extract data and metadata from research equipment and transfer them to the selected endpoint. Depending on the local deployment, this may include MQTT messaging, time-series storage, dashboards or additional processing components. This step should be refined by the team that operates the actual LEAF setup.

Use FAIR Data Station to capture and validate metadata about the investigation, study, observation units, samples, assays and data files. Where relevant, include references to LEAF-captured run information, instrument settings, raw files and processed outputs. The goal is to make the experimental context explicit early and to ensure that equipment data, metadata and derived files can be interpreted together. The concrete metadata profile, template fields, identifiers and controlled vocabularies should be completed by the WUR and IBISBA domain experts.