Machine-actionable vocabularies and data definitions—why they matter and how to make your own
Wolmar Nyberg Åkerström, NBIS / Uppsala University
Just as dictionaries and glossaries sometimes help you avoid misunderstandings in everyday communications, data dictionaries and data definitions can be used to make systems interoperable. In the spectrum of human-to-system-to-human communications you will find ways of systematically organizing knowledge for subsequent retrieval using “controlled vocabularies”—that is, sets of predefined, authorized terms that have been selected by some governing principles. Controlled vocabularies are used ubiquitously, from systematically recording data for a single research study, to serving as the source of acceptable terms in form fields, to enabling large-scale indexing of inventories, medical literature and research outputs.
During this workshop, you will:
- Learn why you might want to take your vocabularies to the next level, what it means to make them machine-actionable, and how to govern them in simple scenarios
- Practice creating, sharing and using vocabularies following recipes that illustrate the general principles and can scale to real-world applications
FAIR
Gard Thomassen, UiO - Anne Schad Bergsaker, UiO
In this workshop we will give an overview of the Metadata Manager implemented at UiO on the Educloud Research platform.
We will present the current implemented solution, and show use-cases from researchers piloting the service, in addition to hear what they say related to the challenges they have when it comes to FAIR-ifying their research data, and in what way the Metadata Manager has helped.
The second part of the workshop will be a demonstration of the solution, using the photographs taken during this AHM for the photogrammetry workshop.
What about the future? Could this solution be expanded further through a development project in a Nordic or European context. We invite NeIC to join us for a debate on possible future prospects.
We ask the participants to take some photos during the meeting that could be used in the FAIR demo. They can be uploaded here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1y0tj8-HoD0xlMNrs4hiNrTbgq_1FnzEA?usp=sharing
Research software development practice
Jake Muff, CSC - Maiken Pedersen, UiO - Matias Jääskeläinen, CSC - Samantha Wittke CSC, Radovan Bast, UiT, Richard Darst, Aalto University.
The goal of this workshop is that in the style of show-and-tell one learns about different ways of using research software development practices related to DevOps and continuous integration from members of the NeIC community.
During the workshop we will hear from 3 contributors on 3 different topics, getting to know how they use Software development and Continuous integration in their job and how it helps them solve problems. The contributors will also bring up unsolved problems or unfinished solutions and engage the audience to solve these and discuss.
We hope that during the workshop you will find out how software development practices can be related to DevOps with hands-on examples to improve your skills. Be prepared to ask questions, discuss and contribute to the workshop
Photogrammetry
Nicòlo Dell'Unto, Lund University
Creating 3D models in the field. In this workshop you will be guided through the steps for creating 3D-models of real-world objects.
Participants will take photographs of some object in or around the hotel, and we will attempt to use these in the workshop.
We ask the participants to upload the photos here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1y0tj8-HoD0xlMNrs4hiNrTbgq_1FnzEA?usp=sharing and they will be of use in the FAIR workshop too.
