[CODATA-international] Cross Domain Interoperability Framework (CDIF): Discovery Module (v01 draft for public consultation)

[Asha CODATA]

In support of the WorldFAIR project and other activities to improve the
implementation of the FAIR principles, the Cross-Domain Interoperability
Framework (CDIF) Working Group is producing a suite of recommendations and
guidelines.  The CDIF will include modules for various aspects of the FAIR
principles, including discovery (this module), data integration, semantic
harmonization, data access, and the supporting technology.

This  draft of the Discover module is released for public review and
feedback: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10252564

Colleagues are invited to send any comments to Simon Hodson <
simon at codata.org>, Stephen Richard <smrtucson at gmail.com>, Arofan Gregory <
ilg21 at yahoo.com> by Monday 15 January 2024.
Executive Summary

The Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework (CDIF) provides a set of
patterns and recommended practices for research infrastructures servicing
cross-domain research areas to support broad reuse of FAIR-data offerings
not only within a community but also between communities. The frame-work is
intended to provide guidance based on existing practice, not specific to
particular domains. The idea is to identify capabilities and component
services, along with the information payload–with appropriate models and
interfaces–to act as a lingua franca within and between domain and
infrastructure boundaries. The framework includes modules for various
aspects of interoperability and reuse, including discovery (this module),
data integration, semantic harmonization, data ac-cess, and the supporting
technology.

Discovery in the context if CDIF is based on providing documentation
(a.k.a. metadata) for re-sources—not only file-based data sets, but other
resources required for research, data analysis, and policy development. The
approach to discovery is based on providing information to support search
applications— text-based information like titles and abstracts, as well as
information about authors, keywords, spatial and temporal coverage, and
publication dates. In the emerging FAIR paradigm, the basic discovery
documentation also needs to provide information to support initial
assessment of a resource with information about variables reported in the
data, measurement methods, processing workflows, data quality, format, and
access.

This specification lays out a set of content items required or recommended
to support these basic discovery goals, as well as procedures that resource
creators can use to make documentation (metadata) describing resources they
offer accessible to search aggregators using the internet. Recommendations
include implementation of the metadata schema using JSON-LD and the
Sche-ma.org vocabulary, broadcast of metadata using standard Web site maps,
and embedding metada-ta in resource HTML landing pages. Appendices provide
a recommended implementation using Schema.org JSON-LD, with examples, and
mapping to Signposting and RDA PID Kernel metadata schemes.


Thanks,

Asha

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