D5.2 – User Requirements Report

Aim of the Deliverable

• Requirement elicitation: To systematically identify and understand the goals, challenges and needs of potential users and stakeholders.

• FAIR analysis: To analyse the digital objects referenced in the user stories with respect to their FAIRification status and to extract representative variables from these digital objects

• Solution paths: To derive solution approaches from the identified requirements, forming the basis for the development of an action plan

Methodology

• User story driven requirement elicitation 

• Systematic description of case studies, user stories and digital object analysis, represented and stored as RDF knowledge graphs.

• Qualitative assessment and gap analysis with FAIR Implementation Profiles, on which the quantitative FAIR assessment with FAIROS will build on

• Extraction of variables from the digital objects for future semantic modelling with I-Adopt service

Major Findings, Results, and Recommendations

• The case studies exhibit highly specific requirements as they address different levels of information processing and knowledge production. 

• User-story centric approach to requirements elicitation proved effective in capturing these community-specific needs. 

Limitations

• The deliverable provides an initial overview of case study requirements based on their current status. 

• Further, more detailed analysis will be required in the second project year. 

Conclusion of the Deliverable

• Prior to the requirements elicitation process, case study providers were trained in FAIR awareness and the creation of FAIR Implementation Profiles.

• This preparatory step significantly improved mutual understanding and facilitated more effective interactions throughout the requirements elicitation process.

• This capacity building will also be beneficial for the long-term implementation of FAIR practices within the case study communities.