FDOs and Service Brokering, the CLARIN Switchboard Use-Case

Even though considerable progress with making research data and also research data processing services more FAIR, there is still lacking sufficient detail in the description of workflows, data and services for their immediate application and they are mostly not machine-actionable. CLARIN has developed the Language Resource Switchboard helping users find and invoke specific services for specific types of data. We consider and explore mapping this approach onto an FDO architecture and see what additional gains can be made.