Announcing DataONE Community Calls

As a community informed and developed infrastructure, the DataONE program is launching monthly Community Calls to further build opportunities for development and promotion of shared approaches to research data management. Community Calls are an opportunity for discussion of DataONE infrastructure aligned activities, and topics are suggested by the community; focussing on issues that are central to data preservation and reuse for repositories, researchers, and others engaged in research data management. You can follow the orange links below to suggest topics, comment on current suggestions and help prioritize the order of future Community Calls via our GitHub repository.

Upcoming Community Call:

Extending the DataONE formats vocabulary

Thursday November 5th 2020 1700 UTC

To increase interoperability across the network, DataONE provides an object format service that provides a consistent vocabulary for the types of data and metadata objects that are available from repositories. Each data file or metadata file is associated with one of these object format identifiers, which provides our web interface and other client tools the information needed to properly process and parse the format. The object format vocabulary is extensible, and so we could review upcoming proposed extensions to the vocabulary, discuss the process for proposing extensions, and identify additional formats that would be useful. In addition, we could discuss whether the object format vocabulary should be modified to include URIs for each vocabulary term, and whether it should be published in RDF or OWL in a system like the ESIP Community Ontology Repository.

Community Call Quick Facts

Best Regards,
Amber Budden
Director of Learning and Outreach, NCEAS
Co-Lead DataONE
aebudden@nceas.ucsb.edu