Semantic Artefact Catalogues (SAC) and ontology repositories are critical in this regard, especially within the framework of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) that has clearly identified the important role “ontologies and metadata” may have on the construction of a Web of FAIR data and services. These catalogues provide essential platforms for receiving, hosting, serving, aligning, and enabling the reuse of ontologies and other Semantic Artefacts (SA) (terminologies, taxonomies, thesauri, vocabularies, metadata schemas and standards). These catalogues not only facilitate the organisation and access of semantic artefacts but also support and sometime ensure their compliance with the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) Data Principles, which are foundational to the EOSC’s mission of promoting open science and data sharing across diverse scientific disciplines.
WP4 produced multiple deliverables showing the importance of SACs in the governance of semantic artefacts (M4.1, D4.1) and in their FAIR lifecycle (M4.2).
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If you want to learn more about FAIR-IMPACT Semantic Artefact Catalogues related work, please have a look to the following documents:
- M4.4 - Review of Semantic Artefact Catalogues and guidelines for serving FAIR semantic artefacts in EOSC
- M4.4 (associated data), a “live” document, so please do not hesitate to complete it
- D4.2 - FAIR semantic artefact lifecycle from engineering, to sharing
See also the work done on the Federation of four Semantic Artefact Catalogues: AgroPortal, EcoPortal, EarthPortal and BiodivPortal.