2Interoperate

At the core of our Task Area 3 – 2Interoperate - is the further advancement of FAIRness in NFDI4Earth, with a special focus on the “I” (interoperability) of participating infrastructures and services. The  NFDI4Earth Architecture  documents general constraints of NFDI4Earth's key data services including central support services, APIs, underlying infrastructure setup, and linked community services, such as re3data and the DataHub.

Our  NFDI4Earth Ontology  enables the characterization of core infrastructures as well as data and service types, along with the standards required to make them interoperable. We harvest and integrate heterogeneous service information from sustainable resources involving both automatic (baseline) and curation. Our NFDI4Earth Label for Interoperability encapsulates key requirements for infrastructures and services to facilitate the integration into NFDI4Earth ecosystem of services.

Our task area receives data streams and impulses from the task Areas 2Participate (Pilots, Education, Academy) and 2Facilitate (User Support, OneStop4All) which provide relevant information on FAIR research data management through their interactions with users. The architecture, FAIR standards, and the NFDI4Earth Label are developed cooperatively. Wherever possible, all types of stakeholders are involved, embedding NFDI4Earth within NFDI as well as in both the international ESS infrastructure landscape and the research data community (Research Data Alliance/RDA, Committee on Data of the International Science Council/CODATA).

Our  Knowledge Hub  manages information about semantic resources and serves as NFDI4Earth's semantic backbone service. It allows users to request service information, such as repository metadata and the NFDI4Earth Label status, thereby supporting the reuse of this information for developing their own applications.

Our  Living Handbook  provides a comprehensive overview of NFDI4Earth services and products (e.g., interoperability evaluation criteria for the NFDI4Earth Label and NFDI4Earth pilot projects). It enables the sharing of community showcases for FAIR data and software and provides information on how to  register services . The Living Handbook Editorial Board curates the content of the Living Handbook, supports its authors and optimises the editorial workflow. Both the Knowledge Hub and the Living Handbook are developed in close interaction with Task Area 4 – 2Coordinate .

We regularly perform gap analyses of Earth system science user workflows to identify missing interfaces, service needs, performance improvements, convergence toward common standards, demands for new services, and suggestions for cross-linking with external services. This is done, for example, in dialogue with users at events like the EGU General Assembly and with our NFDI4Earth pilots. These gap analyses trigger actions within 2Coordinate to implement missing services on a prototype basis, such as AI-driven tools. In close collaboration with 2Facilitate, we develop metadata recommendations, with a special emphasis on improvement of the quality of metadata for governmental data according to researchers’ and providers’ needs.

You can find our project reports and recommendations, as well as those from the other Task Areas,  here .

Are you interested in collaborating? If so, we would be happy to hear from you.

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