Architecture Overview
The Posters.science platform is a comprehensive solution for creating, sharing, and discovering scientific posters. This section provides an overview of the system architecture and design decisions.
Purpose
The Posters.science platform, developed by the FAIR Data Innovations Hub, is a free, open-source, and user-friendly solution for creating poster metadata and sharing scientific posters. It is designed to increase the findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability (FAIR) of posters, making them optimally reusable and AI-ready.
Beyond serving immediate projects, the platform aims to become a one-stop hub for sharing, discovering, and reusing scientific posters at scale.
Key Design Principles
- FAIR Compliance: Ensures all posters meet FAIR data principles
- Open Source: Free and accessible to the scientific community
- Scalability: Built to handle large-scale poster discovery and sharing
- AI-Ready: Structured metadata enables AI-powered discovery
- User-Friendly: Intuitive interfaces for both submission and discovery
Architecture Components
The platform consists of several key components:
- Overall Architecture - Core system design and technology choices
- Technology Stack - Detailed breakdown of technologies used
Repository Integration
Unlike traditional data repositories, Posters.science does not host poster files itself. Instead, posters remain in established repositories such as:
- Zenodo - Open research repository
- Figshare - Research data repository
Posters.science indexes these posters, enriches them with structured metadata, and makes them discoverable through a unified interface.