Metadata Working Group

Information on the Metadata Working Group can be found in their charter document:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14B-4tGMle_aCL9ECgrBdfU3VDfLM_Iu_/edit

Working Group Charter

A key aspect of EOSC is the catalog of metadata describing assets that may be used to achieve scientific or business objectives by users and their organisations. Provisioning of the EOSC catalog (s) requires asset suppliers to provide their metadata describing the assets in the EOSC-defined canonical format.  This format needs to be:

 (a) rich enough to be utilised by end users for discovery, contextualisation, integration and re-use – especially in constructing workflows (however simple or complex) to achieve their processing needs; 

(b) rich enough to be a superset of all relevant entities/attributes (objects/properties) of the metadata of the suppliers.

The group would:

1. Assess the existing EOSC catalog metadata format with respect to end-user processing requirements;
2. Assess the existing EOSC catalog metadata format with respect to metadata formats used by asset suppliers;
3. Assess the effort in conversion from asset supplier native metadata formats to that of EOSC (a cost-benefit evaluation);
4. Recommend changes to the EOSC metadata format arising from the above actions to increase utilisation of EOSC and asset provision in EOSC;

The requirements include the need for metadata covering aspects of AAAI, licensing, curation, provenance, citation/acknowledgement in addition to the end-user processing requirements.

The group would then – with appropriate resourcing – execute the activities planned in the above to ensure provisioning of the EOSC profiles (catalogs) from the research clusters.

Focusses of the WG include:

• Inventory of metadata schema, metadata vocabularies and mappings.
• Map the landscape of community metadata catalogues and aggregators.
• Metadata strategy discussion.

Planned Activities

M1 - Month 2022

How to join?

Contact: Keith Jeffery - keith.jeffery@keithgjefferyconsultants.co.uk 

Participants

Chairs:

• Keith Jeffrey (ENVRI-Fair)

Members

• Keith Jeffery (ENVRI-Fair)
• Daan Broeder (SSHOC/CLARIN)
• Wolmar Nyberg Akerstrom (EOSC-Life)
• Mari Kleemola (SSHOC)
• Alasdair Gray (EOSC-Life)
• Carole Goble (EOSC-Life)
• Nick Juty (EOSC-Life)
• Enrique Garcia (ESCAPE)
• Brian Matthews (PaNOSC) - formally invited

Meetings

Agenda containing meeting minutes and details can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K2QHLrBT_hPP6hFw0JkTKlavivPTAxby45pVRnlKF6o/edit#heading=h.k2rlet71m84l

Please formally join via contacting Keith Jeffrey (ENVRI-Fair) to attend and receive meeting invitations.

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EOSC Future WP3 - T3.3

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WP3 Task 3.3 Information

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Working Group Information

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Working Group Links

Link to charter document

Link to Public Wiki webpage

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WG Background (Pre-operational phase)

General description of the need  Working Group - specifically for EOSC 

Problems the Working Group was to address 

Solutions the Working Group intended to output/provide recommendations on

WG Summary of Actions (During the operational phase)

Working Group - operational activity

Working Group - work undertaken during the operational phase

Working Group - challenges

WG Highlighted Outputs/Recommendations (Post-operational phase)

Working Group summary of outputs and recommendations 

The WG has discussed  the topic of metadata infrastructure as created in EOSCfuture and expectations for the future extensively with EOSCfuture management and Architecture team. 

The result is: Keith, J., & Broeder, D. (2024). EOSCfuture Metadata Working Group Recommendations (1.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10497035

WG Summary Paragraph + Further work needed