Our mission
Our main aim is to foster reproducibility and reusabilty of research data in NFDI4Earth by both humans and by machines in close alignment with the FAIR principles. Together with our partners, we draft and develop a network of FAIR-enabling data models and services to implement the required policies, rules and procedures for FAIR with the key objective to integrate and mobilize ESS data into European (EOSC) and global data spaces.
At the moment we are involved in two core products/services:
We coordinate the development of the data model of the NFDI4Earth Knowledge Hub, which is jointly developed by a broad range of experts from the different member institutions of the consortium. This involves consideration of relevant (meta)data standards, protocols and technologies. The NFDI4Earth Ontology and metadata schema is reusing well-established standards and ontologies (like DCAT, FOAF, PROV-O, ...) and is accessible at https://www.nfdi4earth.de/ontology/.
The ontology provides the foundation on which the NFDI4Earth Knowledge Hub is based on. The Knowledge Hub is the backend for the NFDI4Earth Onestop4All, interconnects with existing registries (like re3data, ROR, ...) and showcases the power of linking research data and knowledge graphs. It is accessible at https://knowledgehub.nfdi4earth.de/.
The NFDI4Earth Label encapsulates key requirements for infrastructures and services to facilitate the integration into NFDI4Earth ecosystem of services. It provides a dedicated interface for repository providers to interact with and a public-facing web interface highlighting services which have successfully obtained the Label.