a serverless FAIR Data Point
FDPlight is a planned browser app for publishing a FAIR Data Point as plain Turtle files on GitHub. Data stewards fill in forms generated from their project's metadata schemas (SHACL). FDPlight writes one correctly wired file per catalog, dataset or other resource, commits them to a GitHub repository served by GitHub Pages, and adds a GitHub Action that pings the FDP Index so the metadata gets harvested.
It is meant for partners who cannot run an FDP on their own servers, for example in ERDERA, and replaces hand-written RDF files, which are error prone.
- Create. Pick a profile (the FDP default, Software, or one imported from any running FDP), give the base URI where the files will be served, and build the tree FDP → catalogs → datasets, distributions or other resource types.
- Edit. Open an existing file-only FDP (made with FDPlight or by hand), edit it in the same forms and save it back. Triples FDPlight does not understand are kept.
- Wire automatically. Types, identifiers, timestamps, parent and child links and the LDP containers are generated, matching what the FDP reference implementation serves.
- Validate. SHACL checks per entity plus structural checks (dangling links, duplicate IRIs, root type) before anything is published.
- Publish. One commit per publish, or a pull request for review.
- Get indexed. A generated workflow pings the FDP Index after each Pages deployment and every few days.
Pilot. Creating, editing, importing, checking and publishing work end to end;
FDPlight publishes its own FDP from this repository (metadata/), listed on
home.fairdatapoint.org. The interface is in English, Portuguese, Dutch,
German, Spanish and French. Open items are in TASKS.md.
Using it: the data-steward guide.
Developing it (Vue 3, TypeScript, Vite single-file build):
npm install
npm run dev # http://localhost:5174
npm run type-check
npm test
npm run build # dist/index.html, one self-contained file- docs/SPEC.md — exactly which files, IRIs and triples FDPlight generates, with the evidence behind each rule.
- TASKS.md — the phased implementation plan.
- docs/data-steward-guide.md — the user guide;
its screenshots come from
scripts/shoot.cjs.
Live (pilot): https://fdplight.fairdatapoint.org/
Contour is the SHACL schema editor. FDPlight is the publishing tool for the records those schemas describe. Both share the same form, record, validation and lookup code (see TASKS.md, Phase 0).
MIT.