LifeWatch ERIC Application Profiles

The purpose of this report is to present the metadata profiles adopted by LifeWatch ERIC for managing different resources: datasets, services, Virtual Research Environments (VREs), workflows and research sites. The work started in November 2018 on the occasion of the first “Metadata, Controlled Vocabularies & Ontologies” meeting held in Lecce, Italy, with the purpose of setting a roadmap for a common strategy to be adopted on metadata, controlled vocabularies and ontologies within the LifeWatch ERIC community and in accordance with the FAIR principles (https://www.lifewatch.eu/download/metadata-controlled-vocabulariesontologies- 1st-working-meeting-report/). A Metadata Working Group, consisting of several experts from the different LifeWatch ERIC national nodes, was established in order to define the metadata schema and profile for each resource and the requirements for the metadata management tool to be used in LifeWatch ERIC.