CLS INFRA D6.2 Transformation toolbox & ingest and processing workflow

This deliverable describes the work in task 6.2 of the CLS INFRA project, with the goal to combat the heterogeneity and incoherence of the CLS ecosystem and to improve the interoperability between data and tools, through a special toolkit, the Transformation Toolbox, providing harmonised means for converting data between formats.To this end, a novel technical concept has been proposed, VELD (Versioned Executable Logic and Data) – a generic mechanism to harmonise description of and improve interoperability between heterogeneous resources and to construct processing pipelines combining heterogeneous tools using widely adopted technologies, which at the same time ensures reproducibility of the workflows. This mechanism was complemented with a comprehensive overview of resources, tools and data, available in the domain using a common unifying data model.Taken together these results represent a significant contribution to the consolidation of the CLS ecosystem.