D4.6 - Use case driven validation of semantic artefact exploitation within data repositories
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
Abstract
Semantic artifacts (SAs) such as terminologies, taxonomies, thesauri, ontologies, and metadata schemas are critical for standardising data representation and documentation, by encapsulating the meaningful knowledge within interoperability frameworks. WP4 “gathers, synthesises and disseminates the materials needed to federate the approach to metadata and ontologies at various organisational and technical levels within EOSC”. It reviews and analyses semantic artefact (SA) community practices and governance models within use cases, with the aim to explore SA management, sharing practices for data FAIRification, practices which are important for any data-driven sciences. This document reports the work of Task 4.5 on FAIR semantic artefacts in use within data repositories through nine use cases, which aim is to demonstrate the impact of FAIR SAs for (meta)data repositories. The common objective is to facilitate and encourage the use of SAs to describe and index data. To achieve this objective, discipline specific SAs catalogues are used to give access to semantically grounded, unambiguous controlled terms. The implemented solution is an API-based connector between the (meta)data repositories and the SAs catalogues (SACs) which allows data depositors to select terms from selected, relevant SAs to fill in metadata with controlled values. The use of a connector understandably benefits the data repository end users by respectively facilitating metadata filling and improving indexation quality, compared to free text values. The innovation brought by the connector profits in particular managers by preventing them from manipulating SAs (import/export, format transformation) and ensuring that their content is automatically updated. Additionally, end users gain from improved metadata quality and indexing ease. This document gathers the description of each UC and a short report of their work on connecting a SAC and a (meta)data repository. It also aims at highlighting a set of recommendations to future implementers of a connector, based on the UC experience: Identify SA and SAC capabilities of the community to meet the semantic needs in (meta)data repositories and catalogues. The organisation responsible for the SAs governance needs to be sustainable and responsive to users feedback. Connectors’ implementation induces changes in (meta)data repositories to exploit SAs potential through adapted search modalities and user interfaces. Consider users’ feedback at all stages of the connectors’ development. Take into account that the connection between SACs and (meta)data repositories impacts the ecosystem by bringing new interdependencies between information systems.
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Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement · Direction pour la Science Ouverte
Affiliation as printed
National Research Institute For Agriculture, Food And Environment
DipSO - Direction pour la Science Ouverte (France)
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Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement · Direction pour la Science Ouverte
Affiliation as printed
National Research Institute For Agriculture, Food And Environment
DipSO - Direction pour la Science Ouverte (France)
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Université de Montpellier · Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement · Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier · Mathématiques, Informatique et Statistique pour l'Environnement et l'Agronomie
Affiliation as printed
Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement
Université de Montpellier
LIRMM | WEB3 - WEB Architecture x Semantic WEB x WEB of Data (LIRMM, 161 rue Ada, 34000 Montpellier - France)
MISTEA - Mathématiques, Informatique et STatistique pour l'Environnement et l'Agronomie (INRA 2, place Viala F-34060 Montpellier Cedex 1 - France)
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Institut Agro Montpellier · Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement · Laboratoire d'Ecophysiologie des Plantes sous Stress environnementaux · Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
Affiliation as printed
INRA Centre de Montpellier
LEPSE - Écophysiologie des Plantes sous Stress environnementaux (Campus INRA / Montpellier SupAgro - 2, place Pierre Viala - 34060 Montpellier Cedex 2 Bat.7 IBIP - France)
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National Research Council · Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto di Ricerca sugli Ecosistemi Terrestri
Affiliation as printed
National Research Council
IRET - Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems [CNR, Italy] (Porano - Italy)
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National Research Council · Istituto Nazionale per Studi ed Esperienze di Architettura Navale · Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto di Ricerca sugli Ecosistemi Terrestri
Affiliation as printed
Istituto di Ricerca sugli Ecosistemi Terrestri, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
INSEAN - CNR (Via di Vallerano 139, 00128 Roma - Italy)
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Affiliation as printed
LifeWatch ERIC
LifeWatch ERIC (Italy)
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Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences · Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
Affiliation as printed
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
DANS-KNAW - Data Archiving and Networked Services (Anna van Saksenlaan 51, 2593 HW Den Haag - Netherlands)
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Pascal Flohr Aachen
Leiden University · University of Oxford
Affiliation as printed
Leiden University
University of Oxford (Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JD - United Kingdom)
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Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences · Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
Affiliation as printed
Data Archiving and Networked Services
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
KNAW - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Netherlands)
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement · UAR Data Terra
Affiliation as printed
Data Terra Research Infrastructure
CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)
Data Terra - Unité Mixte Data Terra (INRAE - LAVALETTE - 361 rue Jean-François Breton - FR-34196 Montpellier - France)
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Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement · UAR Data Terra
Affiliation as printed
Data Terra
Data Terra - Unité Mixte Data Terra (INRAE - LAVALETTE - 361 rue Jean-François Breton - FR-34196 Montpellier - France)
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Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique · Direction pour la Science Ouverte
Affiliation as printed
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
DipSO - Direction pour la Science Ouverte (France)
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Université Paris Sciences et Lettres · Observatoire de Paris · LIRA - Laboratoire d'instrumentation et de recherche en astrophysique
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Observatoire de Paris, Université de Recherche Paris Sciences et Lettres
HPA - Héliosphère et plasmas astrophysiques (France)
LIRA - Laboratoire d’Instrumentation et de Recherche en Astrophysique (Sites de Meudon, Paris, Cergy. Adresse postale : LIRA - Laboratoire d’instrumentation et de recherche en astrophysique Observatoire de Paris, Section de Meudon 5, place Jules Janssen 92195 MEUDON Cedex - France)
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Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement · Département écologie et biodiversité des milieux forestiers, prairiaux et aquatiques · Écologie des Forêts Méditerranéennes
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INRAE Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur
ECODIV - Département écologie et biodiversité des milieux forestiers, prairiaux et aquatiques (France)
URFM - Ecologie des Forêts Méditerranéennes (INRAE Domaine Saint-Paul - Site Agroparc 228 route de l'Aérodrome CS40509 84914 AVIGNON CEDEX 9 - France)
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Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement · Écologie des Forêts Méditerranéennes · Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
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Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
URFM - Ecologie des Forêts Méditerranéennes (INRAE Domaine Saint-Paul - Site Agroparc 228 route de l'Aérodrome CS40509 84914 AVIGNON CEDEX 9 - France)
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Université de Toulon · Aix-Marseille Université · Laboratoire d’Informatique et Systèmes
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Université de Toulon
LIS - Laboratoire d'Informatique et des Systèmes (LIS) (Marseille, Toulon) (Aix Marseille Université – Campus de Saint Jérôme – Bat. Polytech, 52 Av. Escadrille Normandie Niemen, 13397 Marseille Cedex 20 - France)
UTLN - Université de Toulon (Avenue de l'Université - BP 20132 - 83957 La Garde Cedex - France)
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European Bioinformatics Institute · Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Ingénieur, de l'Informatique et de l'Imagerie
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European Bioinformatics Institute
ICube - Laboratoire des sciences de l'ingénieur, de l'informatique et de l'imagerie (300 bd Sébastien Brant - BP 10413 - F-67412 Illkirch Cedex - France)
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