Developing and implementing the semantic interoperability recommendations of the EOSC Interoperability Framework
Creators
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Uppsala University
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Switch
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Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
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European Research Infrastructure on Highly Pathogenic Agents
- 5. e-Science Data Factory
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Universidad de Sevilla
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GO FAIR Foundation
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Institute for Computer Science and Control
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National Institute for Astrophysics
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University of Maribor
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University of Bologna
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Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Data Archiving and Networked Services
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Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB)
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German Climate Computing Centre
Contributors
Project members:
- Andersson, Lisa1
- Borgo, Stefano2
- Boukhers, Zeyd3
- Busse, Christian4
- Desconnets, Jean-Christophe5
- Dumontier, Michel6
- Ekaputra, Fajar7
- Goble, Carole8
- Gurdal, Gultekin9
- Hodson, Simon10
- Horsch, Martin Thomas11
- Jouneau, Thomas12
- Kern, Jori4
- Khan, Anas Fahad2
- Koivula, Hanna13
- Lange, Christoph3
- Mukkala, Raghava Rao14
- Orten, Hilde15
- Palma, Raul16
- Parkinson, Helen17
- Pazos Arias, Jose J.18
- Perseil, Isabelle19
- Pommier, Cyril20
- Portier, Marc21
- Rinaldi, Antonio M.22
- Shi, Zhengdong23
- Storti, Emanuele24
- Tanca, Letizia25
- Vancauwenbergh, Sadia26
- Vitali, Francesco27
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Karolinska Institutet
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National Research Council
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Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology
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German Cancer Research Center
- 5. IRD
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Dutch Techcentre for Life Sciences
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TU Wien
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University of Manchester
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Izmir Institute of Technology
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Norwegian University of Life Sciences
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Université de Lorraine
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CSC - IT Center for Science (Finland)
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Copenhagen Business School
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Sikt – Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research
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Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center
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European Bioinformatics Institute
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Universidade de Vigo
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Inserm
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National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment
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Flanders Marine Institute
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University of Naples Federico II
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University of Paris-Saclay
- 24. Eurodoc
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Politecnico di Milano
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Hasselt University
- 27. CREA-AA
Description
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 communities
- The Semantic Artefact Catalogue: Twelve maturity dimensions
- The Mapping Repository: Making a case for FAIR mappings and crosswalks
- Implementation examples: Common use cases and real-world case studies
The 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.
Notes (English)
This is a report of the EOSC Association’s Task Force Semantic Interoperability (2021–2023). The document was developed in continuous consultation with the task force membership (September 2023–March 2024), where a subgroup of the membership actively contributed to authoring the text. The document was submitted to EOSC Association’s Quality Review Committee (QRC) and an open community consultation on 18 January. The response to the reviewer’s comments was submitted on 12 March and the current version was approved with minor revisions on 27 March.
Read more about the EOSC Association, the role of its task forces and the task forces’ membership on the eosc.eu website.
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Related works
- References
- Report: 10.2777/620649 (DOI)
- Report: 10.2777/1524 (DOI)
- Other: https://eosc.eu/sria-mar (URL)