Managing data types, schemas and vocabularies and crosswalks for FAIR researcher related metadata

The support action will introduce successful applicants to three tools developed by the FAIRCORE4EOSC (FC4E) project.

Data Type Registry (DTR) which allows for machine-actionable standardisation and enrichment of metadata schema elements and other relevant types of data

Vocabulary service which allows for the creation, curation and distribution of controlled vocabularies for any purpose, simple or complex.

Metadata Schema and Crosswalk Registry (MSCR) which supports interoperability between resource catalogues and information systems using different (metadata) schemas and encourage organisations and especially researchers to share their metadata interoperability work by registering and publishing the metadata crosswalks used in their workflows that are currently not visible (FAIRification). Provides an alternative for project specific schema/data type and crosswalk specifications.

In this support action the participants will use one or more of the FC4E tools to enhance the machine-actionability of their existing schema and crosswalk specifications. This could mean for example the registration of schema from public APIs to the MSCR and creation of mappings from those service specific data models to common formats such as Datacite and DCAT or creating a metadata schema using enriched schema elements registered in the DTR.