TS4NFDI Requirements Analysis Report

Introduction

Terminologies and terminology services are widely used inside the NFDI landscape and beyond. To get an overview of the usage of terminologies and their corresponding terminology services a requirement analysis report is needed.

Background information and goal of the survey

Terminology Services 4 NFDI (TS4NFDI) aims to standardize and harmonize collaborative terminology management within the NFDI. It provides a way to integrate and converge individual solutions into a standardized, interoperable, sustainable Terminology Service embedded in a long-term NFDI infrastructure, thereby improving the overall efficiency and effectiveness of terminology management and use, as well as cross-domain collaboration within the NFDI community. The Requirement Analysis Report is designed to capture the requirements of consortia and identify potential use cases to support them to integrate terminology services into their applications.

What is TS4NFDI?

TS4NFDI is a cross-domain basic service of the consortia Base4NFDI for the provision, curation, development, harmonization and mapping of terminologies. TS4NFDI is currently in the initialization phase. By the end of this phase (end of Q4/2024), TS4NFDI will provide a centralized and harmonized API Gateway along with  a Terminology Service Suite (TSS). The TSS will feature JavaScript-based Graphical User Interface (GUI) widgets that provide direct access to at least three different terminology service software stacks: Ontoportal, Skosmos, and Ontology Lookup Service. These software stacks, available across multiple instances, will be integrated into a unified terminology service access point for web services. 

Target Groups of the survey

The target groups of this requirement analysis are developers and managers of web services. We are also interested in users who work with terminologies or ontologies.