Publication Date:
2021-03-16
Description:
Data-intensive science communities are progressively adopting FAIR practices that enhance the
visibility of scientific breakthroughs and enable reuse. At the core of this movement, research objects
contain and describe scientific information and resources in a way compliant with the FAIR principles
and sustain the development of key infrastructure and tools. This paper provides an account of
the challenges, experiences and solutions involved in the adoption of FAIR around research objects
over several Earth Science disciplines. During this journey, our work has been comprehensive, with
outcomes including: an extended research object model adapted to the needs of earth scientists;
the provisioning of digital object identifiers (DOI) to enable persistent identification and to give due
credit to authors; the generation of content-based, semantically rich, research object metadata through natural language processing, enhancing visibility and reuse through recommendation systems and
third-party search engines; and various types of checklists that provide a compact representation of
research object quality as a key enabler of scientific reuse. All these results have been integrated in
ROHub, a platform that provides research object management functionality to a wealth of applications
and interfaces across different scientific communities. To monitor and quantify the community uptake
of research objects, we have defined indicators and obtained measures via ROHub that are also
discussed herein.
Description:
Published
Description:
550-564
Description:
5IT. Osservazioni satellitari
Description:
JCR Journal
Keywords:
earth science
;
research objects
;
FAIR principles
;
Semantic technologies
;
05.01. Computational geophysics
Repository Name:
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
Type:
article
