📄️ Introduction
The Section (Meta)data, Terminologies, Provenance (section-metadata) coordinates cross-cutting topics in metadata standards and harmonisation across all NFDI consortia. It brings together expertise from different disciplines to develop shared terminology, interoperable metadata schemas, and reusable infrastructure for FAIR research data.
📄️ TF Metadata
The Task Force Metadata consists of metadata enthusiasts from various disciplines within the NFDI. It deals with the key topic of metadata standards and metadata harmonisation and is dedicated to defining recommendations for comprehensive NFDI metadata standards. Through its work, the task force is committed to the goals set out in §1d of the Federal-State Agreement and the NFDI Strategy 2025/2026.
📄️ WG Search & Harvesting
This working group focuses on how (meta)data can be extracted, found, and used — both for the discovery and use of data by researchers (search/discovery) and for aggregation and indexing by search services (harvesting). In both cases — search and harvesting — the actors can be humans or machines.
📄️ WG Knowledge Graphs
Knowledge graphs are a key technology for implementing FAIR principles in data infrastructures and ensuring data interoperability both in automated data flows and for end users. The activities of the Knowledge Graphs working group aim to:
🗃️ WG Ontology Harmonization
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📄️ WG Research Software Metadata
Research software is used for research in many areas of science and is itself sometimes the subject of research. Many NFDI consortia cover research software as an important research artifact and want it to meet the FAIR criteria in order to increase transparency, reproducibility, and reusability in software-based research.
🗃️ WG Terminology Services
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