An Infrastructure for Harmonizing Semantics and Structures in Research Data

One of the main enablers for Interoperability and Reproducibility of scientific research data could be the documentation and harmonization of semantics and data structures. We are developing a concept and prototype for an infrastructure and an end-user graph data editor that support these tasks.

Users of the editor will be able to enter their data and metadata in a graph while getting suggestions on existing semantics and structures. If necessary, they can also document their own semantics. The infrastructure provides a platform for publishing and subsequently harmonizing user-made semantics on both a local scale (e.g. within a project) and at a global scale (e.g. within the community of a scientific domain).

We are looking forward to define interfaces to HeliPort.