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HomeEOSCEOSC Macro-RoadmapImplementation challengesMetadata and ontologies

Metadata and ontologies

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Recherche Data Gouv

FranceFrance

Good practice Recherche Data Gouv supports research teams in making data FAIR—findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable. It consists of a... Read more

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SSH Open Marketplace

FranceNorwayNetherlands

Case study The Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) Open Marketplace is a discovery portal supported by DARIAH, CESSDA, and CLARIN. It pools... Read more

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DANS Data Stations

NetherlandsNetherlands

Case study Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS), the Dutch national centre of expertise and repository for research data, launched... Read more

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PLGrid Infrastructure

PolandPoland

Case study PLGrid is a unique infrastructure environment connecting world-class IT resources and specialised competences, built to support the research... Read more

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Open Science Lab

GermanyGermany

Use case The Open Science Lab at the Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology supports cultural heritage institutions and... Read more

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Spanish COVID-19 Data Portal

SpainSpain

The Spanish COVID-19 Data Portal, managed by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) facilitates access to resources, tools, and services for researchers using Spanish and European data infrastructures. Aligned...

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12 June 2024

EOSC Interoperability Framework: Implementing Semantic Interoperability Recommendations

This report provides recommendations to guide current and future actions towards data and service level interoperability—enabling seamless exchange and integration... Read more

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RO-Crate (Research Object Crate)
Project result

RO-Crate (Research Object Crate)

Q1 - 2023

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...

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FAIRsharing BY-COVID Collection of Data Sources
Project result

FAIRsharing BY-COVID Collection of Data Sources

Q3 - 2023

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...

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Use case driven validation of semantic artefact exploitation within data repositories
Project result

Use case driven validation of semantic artefact exploitation…

Q2 - 2025

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...

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

Q2 - 2025

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...

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Guidelines for recommended metadata standard for research software within EOSC
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Guidelines for recommended metadata standard for research software…

Q3 - 2023

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...

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