Toward Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) Photovoltaic System Time Series Data

We present the application of FAIR principles to photovoltaic time series data to increase their reusability within the photovoltaic research community. The main requirements for a "FAIRified" dataset is to have a clearly defined data format, and to make accessible all metadata for this dataset to humans and machines. To achieve FAIRification, we implement a data model that separates the photovoltaic data and its metadata. The metadata and their descriptions are registered on a data repository in a human and machine readable format, using JSON-LD. Also, secure APIs are developed to access photovoltaic data. This approach has long term scalability and maintainability.