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.
Key objective: 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.
Science areas: Health and food, food science, nutrition, agrifood research, metrology, food safety, food composition, food contaminants, and environmental sustainability.
SCIENTIFIC IMPACT
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
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
CAPABILITIES & ACCESS
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.
