Fig. 1
From: Applying the FAIR principles to data in a hospital: challenges and opportunities in a pandemic
Illustration of the central concepts of the envisioned FAIR based architecture: the central star represents the data linking model for interoperability that the sources refer to (data and metadata), the small stars next to each source represent what is used of the central model to describe the source (thereby becoming ‘self-describing’), the arrows represent workflows or scripts: for the source systems to map or convert source data and metadata to the central data linking model, for retrieving data from across the sources through the central data linking model, and for analysis. FAIR Data Points provide access to the ‘ontologised’ metadata and data (not shown)