ENVRI-FAIR D5.4: ENVRI Service Catalogue

The Deliverable "D5.4 ENVRI Service Catalogue" presents the development, implementation, and operation of a comprehensive service catalogue within the context of the ENVRI-FAIR project. The deliverable outlines the creation of a FAIR compliant and EOSC-ready catalogue, primarily focusing on services providing access to data. The innovative design and implementation of the catalogue embrace the adoption of rich metadata standards for ingestion and storage, namely EPOS-DCAT-AP metadata profile and the CERIF model, facilitating the description of diverse services across different research infrastructures (RIs). The validation processes, including service validation at the subdomain level, FAIRness evaluation, and an implementation phase, ensure the robustness, accuracy, and FAIR compliance of the catalogue, promoting its interoperability with the EOSC catalogue.

The deliverable further details the operation of the catalogue, which involves a harmonised effort among service providers, backend developers, and front-end developers. It underscores the ongoing endeavour to ingest more metadata records, provide support for metadata curation, and work towards semantic interoperability. Future work, as outlined in the deliverable, involves enhancing the catalogue's operation by improving metadata quality, enhancing semantic interoperability, and adapting to the diversity of service types from different RIs.

The ENVRI Service Catalogue represents a pivotal step towards advancing FAIR practices in environmental research. Its development, implementation, and operation symbolise an ongoing commitment to continuous improvement, adaptation, and learning, with the ultimate goal of propelling environmental research towards new horizons of discovery and innovation. By aligning with the EOSC catalogue requirements, it envisions a broader, more integrated network of scientific resources, thus empowering global researchers. The ENVRI Service Catalogue, as the embodiment of the ENVRI-FAIR project's vision, promises to facilitate open, FAIR, and efficient access to services and data in the environmental research domain.