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The interdisciplinary data platform INPTDAT provides easy access to research data and information from all fields of applied plasma physics and plasma medicine. It aims to support the findability, accessibility, interoperability, and re-use of data for the low-temperature plasma physics community.

The project QPTDat – Quality Assurance and Linking of Research Data in Plasma Technology aims at enabling and permanently supporting data-driven research and knowledge transfer in the field of plasma technology. For this purpose, curation criteria and metadata standards are to be developed in accordance with the FAIR Data Principles.

BarterMachine is an autonomous decentralized exchange (DEX) that can be used to barter fungible and non-fungible (NFT) tokens collectively. It also provides features such as clubs which are communities, and browser-based solution miners that let users find bartering solutions and submit them to earn excess tokens as rewards.  Bartermachine is an academic/educational system developed to teach about and experiment with decentralized Barter Economy on blockchains.

This use case is implemented by recording the SHA-256 hash, which is considered a strong cryptographic hash function by the German Federal Office for Information Security, together with additional metadata as a transaction in the bloxberg network The transaction creation timestamp acts as a public record, proving the existence of the certified data at this point in time. It is, therefore, possible to later verify the prior certification of a file by looking up the timestamp of the first transaction containing its SHA-256 hash in the bloxberg network.

Member: Westphalian University of Applied Sciences
Status: Proof of Concept
Contact: Dominik Krakau
Link: https://github.com/internet-sicherheit/bloxberg-matlab

The new Open Access Hub area on SAIRA®, developed by Fraunhofer FIT and Fraunhofer, enables fast and easy sharing and publishing of the latest research findings on COVID-19. To secure the authentication, ownership, and integrity of information, the platform is integrated with the bloxberg Blockchain. The bloxberg consortium member Fraunhofer Society launched the SAIRA® Open Access Hub platform with the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT in cooperation with the Secretariat of the World Association of Industrial and Technological Research Organizations (WAITRO). This platform now enables fast and easy sharing and publishing of the latest research findings on COVID-19. The Open Access Hub gives everyone the opportunity to upload technologies and information that can help fight the pandemic and make them publicly available.
The high-quality standards will be ensured by a panel of peer reviewers from WAITRO partner organizations and Fraunhofer. The panel checks every publication made on the platform before they go online.

Furthermore, the Open Access Hub is integrated with the bloxberg blockchain. Thus, in addition to the quality check mentioned above, the platform is secured against manipulation and guarantees the authenticity and integrity of all content with a Blockchain infrastructure. Therefore, all submissions on the Open Access Hub can be proven authentic and unaltered.

Member: Fraunhofer e.V.
Status: productive
Link: https://saira.eco

Funded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. A proof-of-concept project to evaluate SciData JSON-LD as the basis for a Digital Research Notebook (DRN) for normalization of synchrotron data. This project incorporates SciData JSON-LD as the normalized data format and Git (version control) and Bloxberg (academic BlockChain) for maintaining data integrity.