Federated Research Patterns
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Federated Research Patterns is a framework for defining and governing the components needed to support secure federation across Trusted Research Environments (TREs).
Through the concept of Weaves, Patterns enables configurations of software, governance, and metadata, supporting repeatable, standards-based federation for consortia and collaborative projects.
Weaves
A Weave is a configuration that combines the description of software capability, governance, configuration, and metadata required for a model of federation.
A Weave implementation enables a consistent description of federation capabilities. Weaves are used to implement a Pattern, such as when a TRE consortium is formed and needs a consistent, standards-aligned description of a model of federation.
Different Weaves provide different capability across a federated TRE, and is not software specific.
An example of a Weave in development is Five Safes TES.