Metadata and ontologies

RO-Crate (Research Object Crate)

RO-Crate is a community effort to establish a lightweight approach to packaging research data with their metadata. Provenance standards have been matured and extended in collaboration with other initiatives. These...

FAIRsharing BY-COVID Collection of Data Sources

A cross-disciplinary resource that maps and interlinks databases, standards and policies, FAIRsharing enables efficient onboarding of new data sources and a means to ensure these are more discoverable in the...

Use case driven validation of semantic artefact exploitation within data repositories

FAIR-IMPACT will will demonstrate the impact of FAIR semantic artefacts for data repositories and metadata catalogues. It will validate methodologies and guidelines with data driven scenarios from the use cases...

Guidelines and methodology to create, document and share mappings and crosswalks

FAIR-IMPACT will develop a framework establishing bridges between metadata description of various research objects based on metadata schema crosswalks and ontology/vocabulary mappings. Such a framework will enable identification of a...

Guidelines for recommended metadata standard for research software within EOSC

FAIR-IMPACT developed guidelines for the collection and curation of metadata to archive, reference, describe and cite research software by surveying the ecosystem of scholarly infrastructures and review existing guidelines in...

Specification of shared metadata description of semantic artefacts and their catalogues including common reference API

Standardisation mechanisms to describe and serve semantic artefacts within EOSC. Via use cases, the team will demonstrate the impact of semantic artefact management and sharing for data FAIRification and data-driven...

Report on FAIR semantic artefact lifecycle from engineering, to sharing and FAIR assessment

Establishing guidelines and community practices for FAIR semantic artefacts from creation, to sharing and reuse, via repositories and catalogues i.e. ontology repositories, registries, vocabulary/terminology services and metadata schemas catalogues.

Report on Semantic artefact governance models and disciplinary approaches for inclusion within EOSC

The report will provide governance models and disciplinary approaches by reviewing and analysing semantic artefact community practices and governance models to establish their role for EOSC. FAIR-IMPACT will survey integrated...

Recommendations on how to model data for cancer researchers, which ontologies to use and a…

This report will outline recommendations on how to provide better metadata description for cancer research datasets, how to better use ontologies for the content of datasets and how to facilitate...

EOSC Metadata Schema and Crosswalk Registry (MSCR)

The EOSC Metadata Schema and Crosswalk Registry (MSCR) provides the steps to translate data from different repositories with non-compatible metadata schemas to a single metadata schema to enable data analysis...

EOSC PID Meta Resolver

The EOSC PID Meta Resolver (PIDMR) is a generalized resolver to map items into records and integrate them in a global network (e.g. Global Handle). It will also develop (1)...

COVID-19 Portal

COVID-19 Portal is a service where users may find related, comprehensive and scientific information through one portal. It harmonises and brings together different repositories and providers for different data types...