EOSC-A Semantic Interoperability Task Force

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Published January 18, 2024 | Version 18 January 2024
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DRAFT: Developing and implementing the semantic interoperability recommendations of the EOSC Interoperability Framework

Creators

  • 1. ROR icon Uppsala University
  • 2. ROR icon Switch
  • 3. ROR icon Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
  • 4. ROR icon European Research Infrastructure on Highly Pathogenic Agents
  • 5. e-Science Data Factory
  • 6. ROR icon Universidad de Sevilla
  • 7. ROR icon GO FAIR Foundation
  • 8. ROR icon Institute for Computer Science and Control
  • 9. ROR icon National Institute for Astrophysics
  • 10. ROR icon University of Maribor
  • 11. ROR icon University of Bologna
  • 12. ROR icon Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 13. ROR icon Data Archiving and Networked Services
  • 14. ROR icon Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB)
  • 15. ROR icon German Climate Computing Centre

Contributors

  • 1. ROR icon Karolinska Institutet
  • 2. ROR icon National Research Council
  • 3. ROR icon Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology
  • 4. ROR icon German Cancer Research Center
  • 5. IRD
  • 6. ROR icon Dutch Techcentre for Life Sciences
  • 7. ROR icon TU Wien
  • 8. ROR icon University of Manchester
  • 9. ROR icon Izmir Institute of Technology
  • 10. CODATA
  • 11. ROR icon Norwegian University of Life Sciences
  • 12. ROR icon Université de Lorraine
  • 13. ROR icon CSC - IT Center for Science (Finland)
  • 14. ROR icon Copenhagen Business School
  • 15. ROR icon Sikt – Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research
  • 16. ROR icon Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center
  • 17. ROR icon European Bioinformatics Institute
  • 18. ROR icon Universidade de Vigo
  • 19. ROR icon Inserm
  • 20. ROR icon National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment
  • 21. ROR icon Flanders Marine Institute
  • 22. ROR icon University of Naples Federico II
  • 23. ROR icon University of Paris-Saclay
  • 24. Eurodoc
  • 25. ROR icon Politecnico di Milano
  • 26. ROR icon Hasselt University
  • 27. CREA-AA

Description

This draft report was submitted by the EOSC Semantic Interoperability Task Force to the EOSC Association’s Quality Review Committee’s (QRC) assessment on 18 January 2024.

This document expands on and provides nuance to some of the concepts defined in the EOSC Interoperability Framework (EOSC-IF) report and its reference architecture. 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 recommendation to the EOSC community at large.

The explorations that frame the recommendations are titled as follows:

  • The Semantic Interoperability Specification: Implementation profiles for communities
  • The Semantic Artefact Catalogue: Twelve maturity dimensions
  • The Mapping Repository: Mappings, crosswalks and common (meta)data elements
  • Implementation examples: Common use cases and real-world case studies

The recommendations themselves are organised under the following five broad categories:

  1. Align emerging adaptations and implementations to the semantic view of the EOSC-IF reference architecture.
  2. Identify and consolidate different approaches to representing and exchanging (meta)data with the FDO model described in the EOSC-IF.
  3. Extend the EOSC-IF to include a research process perspective that can support convergence on solutions for common use cases.
  4. Extend the set of semantic objects to include artefacts such as mappings and crosswalks.
  5. Recognise the semantic artefact catalogue as a critical part of the long-term viability of any research data infrastructure.

Notes (English)

This is a draft report of the EOSC Association’s Task Force on Semantic Interoperability. Read more about the EOSC Association, the role of its task forces and the task forces’ membership on the eosc.eu website.

Open consultation: The EOSC Association's Semantic Interoperability Task Force is pleased to invite the wider research community to comment on its forthcoming final report and recommendations “Developing and implementing the semantic interoperability recommendations of the EOSC Interoperability Framework”. We warmly welcome your comments and feedback through the PREreview open peer review platform by Friday 1 March.

Link to PREreview:
https://prereview.org/preprints/doi-10.5281-zenodo.10518860 (preferred)
https://prereview.org/preprints/doi-10.5281-zenodo.10518859

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References
Report: 10.2777/620649 (DOI)
Report: 10.2777/1524 (DOI)
Other: https://eosc.eu/sria-mar (URL)