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- David, Romain, et al.
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Converging on a Semantic Interoperability Framework for the European Data Space for Science, Research and Innovation (EOSC)
- 2023
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Semantic interoperability (SI) is at the heart of the FAIR principles and of the design of large scale cross disciplinary infrastructures. The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is a European-wide effort towards such an infrastructure, aiming to deepen the regional research collaboration and realising a shared data space for science, research and innovation. In this context, the research community’s voice is represented by the EOSC Association (EOSC-A) and a number of advisory groups with a broad range of representatives from different stakeholder organisations. The advisory group on metadata and data quality has formed a task force focusing on developing and implementing recommendations for SI (EOSC SI Task Force) with the ambition to converge on globally relevant and scalable SI solutions for EOSC. This paper provides context to SI in EOSC, the various components contributing to it, as well as some views on the socio-technical challenges to arriving at a consensus. In particular, the paper provides motivation for exploring the heterogeneity of SI solutions demonstrated across scientific communities and insight into the task force’s planned approach to conduct a survey to identify relevant components and structures. The paper is also an invitation to the global community to align and engage with the task force’s activities going forward.
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- Nyberg Åkerström, Wolmar, et al.
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Developing and implementing the semantic interoperability recommendations of the EOSC Interoperability Framework
- 2024
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This document expands on and provides nuance to some of the concepts defined in the EOSC Interoperability Framework report from the EOSC Executive Board Working Groups (WG) FAIR and Architecture published in 2021 and the conceptualisation of an EOSC Interoperability Framework that it embodies (EOSC-IF). It accounts for a deep-dive into the landscape of semantic interoperability implementations and a wide range of interoperability scenarios focused around the Semantic Interoperability Specification, some subtypes of Semantic Business Objects, as well as the Semantic Artefact Catalogue and Mapping Repository. A small set of new concepts of relevance to this work and to EOSC at large have also been added.The introduction provides context to the creation of this report, the basic concepts section provides and overview of the related components of the EOSC-IF, and the following four sections summarise explorations that frame the concluding set of recommendations to the EOSC community at large.The explorations that frame the recommendations are titled as follows:The Semantic Interoperability Specification: Implementation profiles for communitiesThe Semantic Artefact Catalogue: Twelve maturity dimensionsThe Mapping Repository: Making a case for FAIR mappings and crosswalksImplementation examples: Common use cases and real-world case studiesThe recommendations themselves are organised under the following five broad categories:Align emerging adaptations and implementations to the Semantic View of the EOSC-IF (pp. 39–42) reference architecture.Identify and consolidate different approaches to representing and exchanging (meta)data with the FAIR Digital Objects model described in the EOSC-IF (pp. 29–34).Extend the EOSC-IF to include a research process perspective that can support convergence on solutions for common use cases.Extend the set of Semantic Business Objects described in the EOSC-IF (pp. 40–41) to include artefacts such as mappings and crosswalks.Recognise Semantic Artefact Catalogue component described in the EOSC-IF (p. 42) as a critical part of the long-term viability of any research data infrastructure.
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