Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
The ELIXIR-Europe federation of national bioinformatics nodes, queryable through Beacon and shared services.
- Is an instance
BBMRI-ERIC's federated biobank directory and locator services.
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
A single centralised data lake is not a federated infrastructure.
- Not an instance
A loose collection of links to separate websites with no shared protocol is not federation.
Editorial commentary
Federation distinguishes itself from centralisation: data stay where they are produced, governed, and stewarded. The federated infrastructure layer (catalogues, query routers, AAI federation, common schemas) brokers access. The pattern is prevalent in biomedical research (ELIXIR, BBMRI-ERIC, EJP-RD), in the eosc-federation" class="text-primary underline-offset-2 hover:underline" data-autolinked="true" title="EOSC Federation — CASRAI Dictionary">EOSC Federation model, and increasingly in privacy-preserving secondary-use of health data (Federated Learning, Federated Analytics, OHDSI OMOP cohort networks). Federation is well-suited to data that cannot or should not be centralised for legal, ethical, or sovereignty reasons.
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Also known as
Federated infrastructure · Federation
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
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