TS4NFDI
Terminology Services
Supported by NFDI Section:
Metadata, Terminologies, Provenance
Phase: Integration
How to reach us
https://terminology.services.base4nfdi.de/
Curious how to make research data truly searchable across all disciplines? Discover TS4NFDI—a service that connects and harmonizes terminologies from different domains, helping you find and understand research data faster and more reliably. Explore how a centralized, harmonized API Gateway and widgets that can be included in any web service can boost discovery, FAIRness, and collaboration in your NFDI community!
Watch their explainer video now and learn how to get started – all components are free and open source!
What is the Basic Service under development about?
Terminology Services 4 NFDI (TS4NFDI) is a cross domain service for the provision, curation, development, harmonization and mapping of terminologies. It aims to facilitate consensus-building and interoperability of services across disciplines to achieve a shared knowledge representation and knowledge engineering framework. The service seeks to integrate and converge individual solutions into a standardized, interoperable, and sustainable service suite with Service Wrapper, API Gateway, mapping service and reusable GUI widgets.
Goals of the Initialisation phase
Currently TS4NFDI is in the initialisation phase with the following goals: to create a comprehensive overview of all consortia and the terminologies and related services in use – as well as their requirements and relevant use cases. Based on the development of a detailed architecture, a first pilot should at least integrate three different terminology service platforms into an aligned terminology service backend.
Goals of the Integration phase
During the integration phase, TS4NFDI will consolidate the service design of the API Gateway, Service Wrappers, Mapping Service, and reusable GUI widgets as well as implementing a Service Portal. IAM4NFDI will be integrated for personalised access and incubators projects will be started. Engaging with the community in form of trainings, workshops or hackathons as well as providing training and documentation is accounted for. Monitoring analytics will be implemented. Furthermore, the team will extend the coverage of disciplines and integrate additional terminology sources and services to meet the requirements gathered during the initialisation phase.
Planned duration (current phase)
Initialisation Phase: 01.11.2023 – 31.10.2024
Integration Phase: 01.01.2025 - 31.12.2026
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