Working with data resource owners and catalogue providers, the process of identifying suitable scientific demonstrators has begun.
Picture 3. Data resource metadata catalogue(s) to facilitate the discovery of the ecosystem of datasets metadata catalogues and data resources. FAIRsharing will be one of the data resource metadata catalogues and will participate in a demonstrator to test this strategy.
The report identifies the following topics for the demonstrators to enable the testing and validation of the EDMI metadata, as well as of the comprehensiveness and adoptability of the guidelines discussed in the report.
- Findability and accessibility of datasets via functional and operational metadata. This demonstrator aims to test how the functional and operational metadata proposed by this project, EDMI, will help services to find, access, transfer and replicate data available in third party data resources.
- Discovery of compliant data resources and metadata catalogues. This demonstrator aims to provide users and services a better overview of existing catalogues and data resources indexed by these catalogues. It also aims to recognise which catalogues and data resources comply with the recommendations of this project.
- “Research schemas” for exposing dataset metadata. We will explore how to use Schema.org, in a manner akin to that used by Bioschemas, to facilitate exposing minimum scientific metadata.
- Description and guidelines per metadata property. Collaborate international partners working on the same issues, such as the RDA MIG group, to align dataset metadata property descriptions.