Co-located EUDAT Semantic Working Group Workshop, 9th RDA Plenary, Barcelona 3-4 April 2017

 

As co-located event with RDA 9th Plenary in Barcelona, EUDAT hosted a Semantic Working Group Workshop on 3-4 April 2017.   The workshop was dedicated to discuss on how to enhance the discoverability and interoperability of the existing domain specific semantic resources i.e. ontologies/vocabularies and the existing repositories as well as the various type of scientific semantic resources (e.g. SPARQL endpoints, Linked Data endpoint, FAIR data points).

The aim was to improve the reuse of these resources for data annotations and interlinking with external data resources within the EUDAT infrastructure. It served as meeting point between maintainers of domain semantic resources (e.g. taxonomy/ontology repositories) and EUDAT in order to outline recommendations for the publication and access of existing contents as well as for the underlying technologies. Research infrastructures from different domains, representing potential users, were part of the meeting in order to provide input on their individual and domain specific uses of semantic technologies, both with respect to the nature of their data as well as their requirements for potential semantic services within the EUDAT infrastructure. By analysing and discussing the RDA recommendations from the Vocabulary service IG, this workshop contributed to the extension of the initial work and the design of the EUDAT infrastructure.

 

The workshop was organised along the following thematic issues: