OA2: Metadata, Ontologies & Interoperability

The programme of Metadata, Ontologies & Interoperability combines a comprehensive overview of approaches,

current activities and promising results and discussions about future developments with a very practical hands-on hackathon based around the integration of existing solutions in developments of projects. The projects FAIRCORE4EOSC and FAIR-IMPACT will provide and facilitate an interactive programme, to be combined with the insights of the Task Force Semantic Interoperability.

Instructions for participants

Reading List OA2 (22 January update)

Approach

The first session will focus on challenges related to semantics and interoperability in the EOSC SRIA. In this session, participants from various EOSC projects will form small groups of 2 to 3 people. Their task is to demonstrate how the results of one project can be applied in the context of another project. By the end of this session, participants will understand the outcomes of different projects and Task Forces, and they will have identified new challenges and potential collaborations to address these challenges. On the second day, the focus will be on a practical hackathon about Semantic Artefacts. The aim is for participants to gain hands-on experience and feedback on their projects’ contributions or expectations from the EOSC partnership, including experiments and the development of immediate solutions.

Objectives

Scoping the landscape by mapping contributions from both projects and Task Forces on Metadata, Ontologies & Interoperability.
Identify future synergies, collaborations and needs between the projects and Task Forces.
Integrate and advance on the different developments around semantics in Metadata, Ontologies & Interoperability.

Outcomes

Deployable solutions on the challenges surrounding metadata, semantic artefacts (and their catalogues) and interoperability.
Identified shared challenges and collaboration opportunities between projects and Task Forces on developments surrounding OA2 FAIR Assessment, for both the present day as well as the future.

^{Tuesday afternoon}
SRIA session
^Wednesday
Hands-ON SESSION
^{Thursday morning}
Wrap-up

Tuesday afternoon SRIA session

The programme on Metadata, Ontologies & Interoperability kicks off with an entry-level session.

This session serves as an introductory discussion on Metadata, Ontologies, and Interoperability, specifically focusing on the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA). Our aim is to comprehensively understand our current position and the challenges that remain within this context.

Participants will share the outcomes of their projects, providing insights into both past achievements and future expectations. This will help us gain a complete picture of the current state in relation to EOSC and SRIA objectives.

We will use the Opportunity Area Matrix spreadsheet, previously distributed to project members and technical coordinators, as a foundational tool for our discussions. This session will also include updates from the Task Force on Semantic and Technical Interoperability, highlighting solved problems, emerging challenges, and existing gaps.

The session will end with a group discussion. We’ll talk about how to create a unified approach to metadata and semantics.

We’ll also have one-on-one talks with each participant from OA2. We want to understand how your project adds to the Matrix. Close collaboration between project representatives and their teams or coordinators is crucial for accurate project representation. Please prepare for these discussions, as we will be contacting you before the Winter School to emphasize the importance of thorough preparation.

Objectives

Providing an overview of how projects (current and new projects) address the laid-out challenges in SRIA (v1.1) and EOSC IF and how far EOSC is in tackling those challenges through the (expected) developed results of projects.
Revising the guidelines and recommendations and general limitations in important strategic documents like the SRIA (v1.1) and EOSC Task Forces.
Identifying new challenges through the work of projects and the conclusions of the Task Forces.

Outcomes

An up to date and complete overview of the current situation addressing the challenges concerning Metadata, Ontologies and Interoperability, including general recommendations, lessons learned and future challenges.
An initial vision on metadata and semantics that should inform SRIA 2.0 on Metadata, Ontologies and Interoperability

SRIA SESSION

Time: 14:00 – 18:00
Session chair: TBC
Session rapporteur: Roksana Wilk
Speakers: Each EOSC project participant

TIMESLOT	DESCRIPTION	FORMAT	CONTENT
14:00 – 14:20	Welcome and introduction to methodology and Matrix	Opening talk	In the opening talk, the programme committee welcomes their participants to the hands-on programme of Metadata, Ontologies & Interoperability
14:20 – 16:00	Presentations of project responses to the Matrix	Interactive work session	Session that focuses on the shared entries to the Opportunity Area Matrix spreadsheet, which was shared with project participants and technical coordinators beforehand and completing it with the input of the participants
16:00 – 16:30	Break
16:30 – 17:00	Presentations of project responses to the Matrix	Interactive worksession	Session that focuses on the shared entries to the Opportunity Area Matrix spreadsheet, which was shared with project participants and technical coordinators beforehand and completing it with the input of the participants
17:00 – 17:20	Mapping with Task Force results	Interactive worksession	Incorporated of outcomes of the Task Force of Semantic Interoperability with the described activities and results captured in the matrix
17:20 – 18:00	Discussion on opportunities and needs that should inform the development of the SRIA 2.0 and forthcoming reconfiguration of the EOSC Task Forces	Discussion	This discussion will tie in the outcomes of the Matrix with the underlying challenges they address and will make an estimation of the level of adoption in the EOSC landscape.

Wednesday Hands-ON SESSION

On Wednesday, we’ll have a full day of practical work focusing on OA2.

The day will start with brief 10-minute presentations from each team, outlining their goals for the day. We expect 4 or 5 teams, each with 2 or 3 members from different EOSC projects, although more teams might join at the last minute. Each team should come with an idea for a project to work on and present later. A good example would be using the result of one project (like a product or service) in the context of another project.

The main aim is to explore how different tools and solutions from these projects can be integrated and how information can be shared with Task Forces. We’ll identify areas that need more work, such as semantic artefact catalogues, creating connections between artefacts, APIs, and applying recommendations.

The afternoon will continue with this hands-on work on OA2. We’ll wrap up the day with short presentations from each team, sharing what they’ve achieved.

Examples of possible team topics:

Experimenting with FAIR-IMPACT semantic artefact catalogues
Describe EOSC project research software with FAIR-IMPACT’s metadata guidelines
Identify EOSC projects approach to semantic artefacts (governance and catalogues).
Load semantic artefacts from EOSC projects to an OntoPortal-based catalogue
FAIRness assessment of semantic artefacts used within EOSC projects (evaluate the level of FAIRness of a semantic artefact in use in an EOSC project and improve it with FAIR-IMPACT solutions (e.g., O’FAIRe and FOOPS!))
Register existing schemas with FAIRCORE4EOSC’s MSCR
Register an existing crosswalk with MSCR
Create a crosswalk between schemas using MSCR’s crosswalk editor
Connect a data repository within an EOSC project to a semantic artefact catalogue.
Federate multiple semantic artefact catalogues from different projects.
Consume FAIRCORE4EOSC MSCR’s mappings into a semantic application.
Implement FAIR-IMPACT semantic artefact catalogue API.

Objectives

Experiment the tools/methods/products developed or in-used in EOSC projects into several other ones.
Experiment how the tools/methods/products developed or in-used in current EOSC projects can be translated or re-used into other projects.

Outcomes

Better knowledge of the components developed/used/recommended by EOSC projects so to provide feedback and anticipate how to address their limits in the long term.

HANDS-ON SESSION

Time: 09:30 – 19:00
Session Chair: TBC
Session rapporteur: Roksana Wilk

TIMESLOT	DESCRIPTION	FORMAT	CONTENT
09:30 – 09:40	Introduction to the hands-on session	Introductory presentation	This session looks back at the outcomes of the Tuesday session and introduces the hands-on work programme for the Metadata, Ontologies and Interoperability track
09:40 – 10:40	Presentations by each teams of their expected topic	Group work	In this session, the participants (who will be divided in teams based) present their experiment that they will work on during the day
10:40 – 11:00	Team work session: experimenting with an outcome of one project used within the context of another project	Work session	In this interactive sessions the teams are working to solve their experiments and challenges
11:00 – 11:15	Coffee break
11:15 – 12:30	Team work session: experimenting with an outcome of one project used within the context of another project	Work session	In this interactive sessions the teams are working to solve their unique experiments and challenges
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
15:00 – 17:00	Team activityCoffe break	Work session	In this interactive sessions the teams are working to solve their unique experiments and challenges
17:00 – 17:30	Coffee break
17:30 – 18:30	Team results presentations	Presentations	In this session the teams come back to the plenary setting and present their progress and solutions to the challenges
18:30 – 19:00	Discussion and wrap-up	Interactive work session	All lessons learned, outcomes, progress and solutions are condensed into a set of recommendations for future challenges

Thursday morning Wrap-up

EOSC

Building the EOSC Federation

Monitoring & Reporting

Measuring KPIs

Tracking in-kind contributions

Tripartite Collaboration

Members

News

OA2: Metadata, Ontologies & Interoperability

The programme of Metadata, Ontologies & Interoperability combines a comprehensive overview of approaches,

Approach

Objectives

Outcomes

The programme on Metadata, Ontologies & Interoperability kicks off with an entry-level session.

Objectives

Outcomes

On Wednesday, we’ll have a full day of practical work focusing on OA2.

Objectives

Outcomes

Conclude your Winter School experience by reviewing all lessons learned in previous sessions and aligning with medium- and long-term objectives.

Bios of the Metadata, Ontologies & Interoperability sub-committee

Projects

EOSC-A Task Forces

EOSC-A Board of Directors

Coordination & Support