Open Science, Business Analytics, and FAIR Digital Objects

The lack of data interoperability is hindering the emergence of Open Science and making data analytics considerably more expensive than it should be. A new technology, FAIR Digital Objects, is seeking to solve this problem along with several others. FAIR is an acronym for findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable. Digital Object Architecture is a very general virtual layer to ride on top of any data system, which can solve the interoperability problem for heterogeneous data, much as the Internet solved the interoperability problem for heterogeneous networks. A specific project employing these technology will be described.