Metadata, Controlled Vocabularies and Ontologies 2nd Working meeting Report

The LifeWatch ERIC (hereafter LW ERIC) Service Centre organised the second working meeting on "Metadata, Controlled Vocabularies and Ontologies" in Lecce from 15 to 17April 2019. The aim of the meeting was to continue the activities related to the definition of a common strategy to be adopted on metadata, controlled vocabularies and ontologies within the LW ERIC community and in accordance with the FAIR principles.The meeting involved participation from 10 experts, with both scientific and technical backgrounds, from 5 national nodes of LW ERIC (Greece, Italy, Spain, Slovenia, TheNetherlands). Three sessions were held on 1) Metadata, 2) Controlled Vocabularies, and 3) Ontologies, each one including a summary on work already done and working sessionsfor the implementation and curation of metadata, standardized controlled vocabularies and ontologies.