Glossary

Accessibility

A quality denoting the ease of access of a resources. Accessibility can be measured according to a number of metrics or indicators

DwC

Darwin Core

EML

Ecological Metadata Language

FAIR

Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable

FAIR assessment

the process of rating a dataset or service along the 4 dimensions of Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reusability

FIP

a FAIR implementation Profile, which can be understood as the set of metadata element and their value sets, semantic resources and constraints to capture information in a domain of interest

HTTP

Hypertext Transfer Protocol is a communication protocol used by the internet

Interoperability

The ability of different software systems to exchange and seamlessly process shared data

JSON

Javascript Online Notation, a syntax for data structures and used to transmit data objects consisting of attribute-value pairs

Licensing

the process of assigning a license, i.e a formal, legally binding document which articulates the condition of use of an entity

Metadata

annotation about the data. Different types of metadata exist depending on their function

Ontology

a formal representation of a domain of knowledge. A more advanced artefact than a simple controlled terminology as relations between entities are captures, concepts can be defined axiomatically and inferences can be made automatically by specialized tools such as reasoners. Ontologies can be used to accomplish tasks such as data entry validation or query expansion.

PID

Persistent Identifier, a long-lasting reference to a document, file, web page, or other object. The term “persistent identifier” is usually used in the context of digital objects that are accessible over the Internet.

Provenance

metadata the aim of which is to provide traceability, audit and trail capability allowing consumers to understand the origin of the data

RDA

The Research Data Alliance is a research community organization started in 2013 by the European Commission, the American National Science Foundation and National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the Australian Department of Innovation.

RDF

Resource Description Framework a W3C standard specification for representing information in the form of subject / predicate / object statements known as triples.

Reusability

a property of an entity to be data entity to be consumed, integrated or repurposed, ideally with as low as possible transformation requirements.

URI

A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is a unique sequence of characters that identifies a logical or physical resource used by web technologies

XML

Extensible Markup Language