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Progress on developing guidelines for publishing structured data on the web

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03 Aug 2020
Group(s) submitting the application: 
Research Metadata Schemas WG
Meeting objectives: 

  • Introduce the group to new RDA members

  • Inform on progress, solicit feedback from participants towards the WG’s outputs

  • Seek input and feedback from participants and other RDA WGs/IGs for future activities

Meeting agenda: 

 

Collaborative Notes Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H-YlkR2ciOQCHK1YoB2GwvhxeAAOmzNlXwo6...

 

  • Introducing the group (5 mins)

  • Reporting progress of the WG’s outputs (30 mins)

    • Guidelines - Leyla Garcia-Castro
    • Crosswalk - Chantelle Verhey
    • Toolings - Adam Shepherd

  • Breakout sessions  - discussions on each of the planned WG outputs (30 mins)

    • Room 1: Guidelines - feedback on guidelines so far and how to improve them
    • Room 2: Crosswalk - feedback on crosswalk (current one focuses on dataset and software) and if other resources (publication, workflow, training courses/materials) should be covered
    • Room 3: Toolings - tools for consistently implementation and validation markup

  • Report back (20 minutes)

  • Wrap-up (5 mins)  (Leyla Garcia-Castro)

Target Audience: 

  • Anyone (especially data repository/catalogue manager/developer/operator) who is interested and would like to know more about how to publish and get their data discoverable via web architecture.
     

  • Anyone who works on research data metadata schema would like to be informed of what this WG plans to do and how they can contribute to the proposed work.
     

  • Anyone who is interested in building knowledge graphs or any innovative data discovery applications on aggregated research data resources.
     

 

Group chair serving as contact person: 
Mingfang Wu
Brief introduction describing the activities and scope of the group: 

This proposed working group will provide a platform to complement, build on and extend efforts from bioschema.org, science-on-schema.org and the like communities in applying and extending the core schema.org vocabulary for describing research datasets and related resources. 

 

The planned outputs will include: 

  • A generic ‘conceptual data model’ with essential types and properties for research data discovery over the web. The model will be built on bioschemas.org, science-on-schema.org, schema.org, DCAT, DDI-DISCO and SSN schemas from some representative research domains, and data discovery use cases. A research domain can map their schema to the conceptual model when they publish data to the web or exchange metadata between data portals/repositories.

  • A guidelines of common patterns for publishing metadata landing pages with structured data markup, and guidelines of how to customise the research schemas for targeted domains with examples.

  • Toolings for making the implementation easier if resources are available. This could include collecting and cataloguing tools that generate, validate and parse schema.org & DCAT markup, etc. 

Short Group Status: 

This working group was endorsed in September 2019, as a spinoff from a task force "Using schema.org for Research Dataset Discovery" of the RDA Data Discovery Paradigms IG.

So far, the group has organised the following activities:

 

The group has been organising regular monthly virtual meetings (Please join the group to get meeting reminder)
 

 

Type of Meeting: 
Working meeting
Additional links to informative material: 

Here is the group's case statement.

Please visit the group page for links to each planned outputs.

Avoid conflict with the following group (1): 
Data Discovery Paradigms IG
Avoid conflict with the following group (2): 
FAIR for Research Software (FAIR4RS) WG
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