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TS4NFDI

Terminology Services

Supported by NFDI Section:

Metadata, Terminologies, Provenance

Phase: Integration

Service Steward

How to reach us

https://terminology.services.base4nfdi.de/

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What is the Basic Service under development about?

Terminology Services 4 NFDI (TS4NFDI) is a cross domain service for the provision, curation, development, harmonization and mapping of terminologies. It aims to facilitate consensus-building and interoperability of services across disciplines to achieve a shared knowledge representation and knowledge engineering framework. The service seeks to integrate and converge individual solutions into a standardized, interoperable, and sustainable service suite with Service Wrapper, API Gateway, mapping service and reusable GUI widgets.

Initialisation phase proposal Integration phase proposal

The service explained in ~10 minutes

Presentation slides, Q&A document, and more can be found here.

Project Team

Oliver Koepler

TIB Leibniz Information Centre

oliver.koepler[a]tib.eu

Roman Baum

ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences, NFDI4Health, FAIRagro

baum[a]zbmed.de

Naouel Karam

Institut für Angewandte Informatik (InfAI) e.V., NFDI4Biodiversity

karam[a]infai.org

Goals of the Initialisation phase

Currently TS4NFDI is in the initialisation phase with the following goals: to create a comprehensive overview of all consortia and the terminologies and related services in use – as well as their requirements and relevant use cases. Based on the development of a detailed architecture, a first pilot should at least integrate three different terminology service platforms into an aligned terminology service backend.

Goals of the Integration phase

During the integration phase, TS4NFDI will consolidate the service design of the API Gateway, Service Wrappers, Mapping Service, and reusable GUI widgets as well as implementing a Service Portal. IAM4NFDI will be integrated for personalised access and incubators projects will be started. Engaging with the community in form of trainings, workshops or hackathons as well as providing training and documentation is accounted for. Monitoring analytics will be implemented. Furthermore, the team will extend the coverage of disciplines and integrate additional terminology sources and services to meet the requirements gathered during the initialisation phase.

Planned duration (current phase)

Initialisation Phase: 01.11.2023 – 31.10.2024

Integration Phase: 01.01.2025 - 31.12.2026

Upcoming Events

Publications, presentations, workshops

TS4NFDI: Harmonizing Terminology Services within NFDI at the NFDI4Microbiota meeting 2024. Dec 5, 2024.
Terminology Services 4 NFDI (TS4NFDI) at the "Services Roadshow by Base4NFDI". Dec 4, 2024.
A terminology service via TS4NFDI for BERD@NFDI knowledge graph infrastructure. Nov 27, 2024.
First steps of the basic service Terminology Services 4 NFDI - Step by step through the initialization to the integration phase. Nov 21, 2024.
Integration Phase proposal. Oct. 11, 2024.
TS4NFDI Requirements Analysis Report. Sep 30, 2024.
TS4NFDI: Harmonizing Terminology Services within NFDI at 2nd Community Meeting of NFDI4Objects. Sep 27, 2024.
Unterstützung eines nachhaltigen Forschungsdatenmanagements durch den Basisdienst Terminology Services 4 NFDI (TS4NFDI). Sep 24, 2024.
Harmonizing Terminology Services within NFDI. June 26, 2024 at the NFDI4Biodiversity All Hands Conference in Munich on April 24 - 26, 2024.
Initialisation Phase proposal. June 20, 2024,
Brücken bauen zwischen Wissensdomänen. March 21, 2024.
Terminology Services for NFDI (TS4NFDI) - Unleashing the potential of service applications. NFDITalk on Jan 22, 2024.