The Architecture

This Standard Architecture for Trusted Research Environments (TREs) provides a comprehensive high-level architecture for research organisations handling sensitive data safely. The architecture is documented using the ArchiMate modelling language with models created using the open source modelling tool Archi.

Capabilities an organisation requires to run a TRE are documented and deconstructed to show the elements (Roles, processes, applications and data) needed to realise those capabilities. Views are provided aligned to the capabilities and in version 1.0 an additional view is provided to show alignment to the Five Safes Framework.

The main document is available on Zenodo.

The architecture and SATRE standard maps to the architecture meta-model below.