EOSCpilot - D6.9: Final report on Data Interoperability

The objective of the EOSCpilot data interoperability task (6.2) is to demonstrate how to ensure availability of research data to services and users through an open cloud infrastructure. To do so, this task has produced a set of recommendations driving a coherent strategy, as well as a set of technical solutions to help users and programmatic services to find and access datasets across several disciplines, enabling the EOSC to be built around a more coordinated and aligned data ecosystem. The six recommendations driving our proposed strategy are: - The data guidelines and technical solutions proposed by the EOSC should be specific, common, simple, lightweight and collaborative. - All the data resources contributing to the EOSC should expose structured metadata. - The EOSC should reuse or build upon existing standards and formats, and promote the use of common best practices across scientific domains. - The EOSC should propose minimum information guidelines across scientific domains especially targeting key operational metadata which is important for services consuming data. - The EOSC should support an interconnected ecosystem of metadata catalogues as a fundamental service component to facilitate data discovery. - The EOSC should implement a monitoring service to validate standards and recommendations proposed by the EOSC. The four technical solutions that comprise the data strategy are: - A common minimum information metadata guideline for datasets in the EOSC. - Recommendations to establish a coordinated and interconnected ecosystem of dataset metadata catalogues. - Adoption of ResearchSchemas as a means to drive research data discoverability and accessibility. - A set of recommendations for common properties across multiple data types.