CEFCA Catalogues Portal towards FAIR principles

TL;DR

The paper describes the development of the CEFCA Catalogues Portal, which publishes large-scale astronomical survey data following FAIR principles to enhance data accessibility, provenance, and research utility.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive portal implementing FAIR principles for large astronomical surveys, including a publishing registry and VO services to improve data sharing and provenance.

Findings

Successful implementation of FAIR principles in data publication

Enhanced data discoverability through VO services

Improved provenance and validation processes

Abstract

The Centro de Estudios de F\'isica del Cosmos de Arag\'on (CEFCA) is carrying out from the Observatorio Astrof\'isico de Javalambre (OAJ, Teruel, Spain) two large area multiband photometric sky surveys, J-PLUS and J-PAS, covering the entire optical spectrum using narrow and broad band filters. J-PAS and J-PLUS include coadded and individual frame images and dual and single catalogue data. To publish all of this data, the CEFCA catalogues portal has been implemented offering web user interface services, as well, as Virtual Observatory (VO) services. This contribution presents the effort and work done in the CEFCA Catalogues Portal to enhance data publication of these large surveys following FAIR principles to increase data value and maximize research efficiency. It presents how FAIR principles have been achieved and improved with the implementation and publishing of the CEFCA Catalogues Publishing Registry, the use of VO services, their validation and improving processes and the effort made to offer data to improve provenance information.