ITINERIS FAIR convergence matrix review

The Italian Integrated Environmental Research Infrastructures System (ITINERIS) Project commenced in November 2022, aiming to establish the Italian Hub for Research Infrastructures (RIs) in the environmental scientific domain. Its mission involves providing access to data and services, contributing to addressing current and anticipated environmental challenges. ITINERIS oversees a network of national nodes encompassing 22 RIs—18 from the environmental domain, 2 from agri-food with strong ties to the environment, and 2 from the Physical Sciences and Engineering domain, offering support services for the marine domain. The participating RIs include ESFRI Landmarks (Italian nodes) like ACTRIS, EMSO, Euro-Argo, ICOS, and LifeWatch in the environmental domain, as well as ANAEE in the Health&Food domain. ESFRI projects (Italian nodes) such as DANUBIUS-RI, DiSSCo, and e-LTER operate in the environmental domain, while EMPHASIS and EUIBISBA function in the Health&Food domain. Additionally, EU RIs like ECORD, EUFAR, Eurofleets, JERICO, and SIOS operate in the environmental domain, and national RIs like ATLAS, CeTRA, Laura Bassi, and SMINO function in the environmental domain, with Geosciences and LNS serving as support services for the Physical Sciences and Engineering domain, especially for the marine domain. Deliverable 2.8 aims to provide a concise review of the existing FAIR Implementation Profiles (FIPs) relevant to the ITINERIS project using the FIP Wizard. The matrix was constructed by downloading all FIPs from the GitHub SPARQL query (https://github.com/peta-pico/dsw-nanopub-api/blob/main/tables/new_matrix.csv). The table was refined to include only RIs participating in ITINERIS and SeaDataNet FIPs (SeaDataNet-CDI and SeaDataNet-Sextant). SeaDataNet was included in the analysis due to its relevance to marine subdomain RIs within ITINERIS. The most updated version of each FIP was considered, and only FERs declared as "available" and "in use" by each community were selected. The resulting matrix illustrates the number of common FERs between each pair of RIs, serving as an indicator of convergence. In this analysis, SeaDataNet FIPs and the "LifeWatch marine" community were excluded. RIs represented by more than one community were merged in the cross table to acknowledge the collaborative nature of contributions.