The EOSC Node METROFOOD-RI acts as a thematic entry point for validated, interoperable food-related data and services.
It integrates quality-controlled laboratory analytical data, metadata catalogues, repositories and workflows connecting food research with health, environment, agriculture and sustainability domains.
Building on achievements from the EOSC Beyond, EOSC Mesh and EOSC EDEN projects, the METROFOOD-RI EOSC Node demonstrates production-level readiness, providing structured access to harmonised and policy-relevant food data in support of reproducible, cross-disciplinary research.
To formalise METROFOOD-RI as a thematic EOSC Node for food, nutrition and agrifood research, providing trusted access to harmonised, quality-controlled and policy-relevant food data and services.
METROFOOD-RI enables traceable, quality-assured food and nutrition data for reproducible science, policy support and cross-disciplinary research linking food, health, agriculture and environmental domains.
FAIR data
The EOSC Node METROFOOD-RI federates FAIR food and nutrition research data, including quality-controlled food composition and analytical datasets and metadata catalogues, along with FAIR-compliant digital services, workflows and data quality tools.
Scientific use cases
- Cross-border federation of food research catalogues and repositories across EOSC Node METROFOOD-RI, EOSC Node Poland and EOSC Node Switzerland
- Interoperable storage, management and publication of food-related datasets with EUDAT services
- Reproducible cross-node food data analysis workflows leveraging computational infrastructure from CERN and EGI
- Development of a metadata harvester aggregating metadata from METROFOOD-RI, EOSC Node Finland and other repositories into a unified platform
- Creation of a public repository for EOSC datasets with a metadata catalogue, DOI minting, storage services, data ingestion workflows, and a metadata schema registry
Deliverables
- METROFOOD-RI Node enrolment
- Federation with mandatory EOSC Federated Capabilities
- Governance concept for METROFOOD-RI as an EOSC Node
- Six cross-node use cases with partner nodes across Europe
- Contribution to the EOSC Academy
- METROFOOD data quality framework
Technical status
Planned
- Federated AAI
- Onboarded service catalogues (METROFOOD metadata catalogues; METROFOOD service catalogue)
- Service monitoring
- Helpdesk
- Management system
Interactions with other EOSC Nodes
How to access the Node
Rules of Participation
Access is open, restricted or private depending on the service and dataset. Discovery is provided via catalogues; service and data access are governed by provider and use-case policies.
Access points
Via home page (https://www.metrofood.eu)
Node capabilities
Federated services
- AAI
- Metadata catalogues
- Service Catalogues
- Service monitoring
- Helpdesk
- Service Management System
Data repositories
- METROFOOD data repositories
- Food quality, safety, contaminants and authenticity data
Compute and storage
Digital services supporting food data repositories and workflows
VRE
Food data workflow and analysis environments where provided by METROFOOD services
Other
- Data quality framework
- Physical laboratory
- Training and capacity building
- Reference materials
Coordinating organisations
Node organisation
Coordinator
Dr. Nives Ogrinc (JSI)
Deputy coordinator
Karl Presser (PMT)
Communication officer
Magdalena Pilch (PMT)
Node Operations Committee
Karl Presser (PMT)
Architecture & Federating Policies WG
Oskar Chajdas (PMT)
Kamil Kubala (PMT)
Contributing organisations
