Working Group Terminology Services

Terminologies are at the heart of FAIR metadata for research data management (RDM). Terminologies have various characteristics: they describe domain knowledge (e.g. chemistry, biology, and information science use their own terminologies) and they constantly evolve over time, requiring acceptance and coordination (mapping) within their knowledge domain and beyond.

The overarching goal of the Terminology Services working group is to drive joint developments, share best practices, and reduce barriers to the use of terminologies across NFDI consortia.

Contact

• Contact persons: Roman Baum, Naouel Karam

Ressources

• Working Group Charter on Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6759325
• Further links will be added later.

Mailing list

• Address: section-metadata-wg-ts@lists.nfdi.de
• Subscribe/Archive: https://lists.nfdi.de/postorius/lists/section-metadata-wg-ts.lists.nfdi.de/

Coordinators

• Roman Baum (Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Medizin; NFDI4Health) — baum@zbmed.de
• Luca Ghiringhelli (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft; FAIRmat) — ghiringhelli@fhi-berlin.mpg.de
• Naouel Karam (Fraunhofer FOKUS; NFDI4Biodiversity) — karam@infai.org

Publications and Outreach

• Baum, R., & Koepler, O. (2023). Leveraging Terminology Services for FAIR Semantic Data Integration Across NFDI Domains: How to Integrate Terminology Services Into Other Service Applications. Proceedings of the Conference on Research Data Infrastructure , 1. https://doi.org/10.52825/cordi.v1i.356
• Anders, I., Bailly, K., Baum, R., Engel, F., Ernst, F., Ghiringhelli, L. M., Kailus, A., Karam, N., Kett, J., Kraus, F., Löbe, M., Moeller, K., Patil, A., Rossenova, L., Voß, J., Weiland, C., & Özaslan, M. (2022). Terminology Services - Working Group Charter (NFDI section-metadata) (1.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6759325
• Koepler, O., Sasse, J., Karam, N., & Baum, R. (2024). Terminology Services 4 NFDI (TS4NFDI) – Initialisation Phase Proposal. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12188787
• Baum, R., Bailly, K., Bouazzouni, S., Fillies, J., Karam, N., Mühlhaus, T., Posthumus, E., Oladazimi, P., Sasse, J., Voß, J., & Koepler, O. (2024). Terminology Services 4 NFDI (TS4NFDI) - Integration Phase Proposal. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13921325