WS2

The second workshop of EERAdata is organized as an online webinar and hackathon during November, 30, to December, 4th, 2020.

Objective

• Discuss and develop metadata standards for FAIR and open data in the low carbon energy research community.
• Identify gaps and needs that hinder their standardized realization and implementation.
• Jointly work on a community paper and/or join the discussions in use cases. We start with a commented and revised draft. Link to draft of the community paper

Workshop concept of EERAdata

Read aheads

Obligatory

Participation in preparatory workshop (or watching the recorded videos). This workshop will take place Thursday, 5th of November, 10-12 CET. The workshop will introduce recent work on metadata, and it will outline the tasks and procedures on how to join the writing team for the community. A draft is open for commenting by 23.11.2020, we highly welcome any feedback! Link to register for the preparatory workshop.

Suggested read on the history of metadata

Metadata - Shaping Knowledge from Antiquity to the Semantic Web by Richard Gartner

Join and collaborate interactively!

Becoming a co-author

Workshop participants are invited to become co-authors of the planned community paper How to join the team writing the community paper? Briefing is provided during the preparatory workshop (also recorded). Includes recommendation for read and watch aheads.

The community paper addresses 3 key questions:

• Q1: How to align mental models of those searching for data with navigation along metadata? What is specific to the energy domain?
• Q2: What consequences for the construction of domain-specific metadata follow? and how can they be dynamically updated?
• Q3: What are the recommendations to the low carbon community?

The envisaged output of the paper is:

• A community-reviewed draft for a low carbon energy ontology in support of metadata,
• Metadata suggestion cards for low carbon energy researchers,
• Recommendations on how to proceed.

Invitation to comment the draft before the writing workshop, e.g.:

• Review of key questions,
• Suggestions of literature, illustrative cases, metadata perspectives & issues,
• Suggestions to any section (e.g., Introduction, Method, Discussion of Results, Outlook)
• Adding snippets of texts,

Any other idea is welcome!

Using above prior comments & contributions provided by 23.11.2020, the EERAdata team will revise the draft before the workshop starts. During the workshop, the discussion & writing of the paper continues in small writing teams. A prior registration to teams is therefore recommended. However, teams can change anytime. The EERAdata team is strongly interested in inviting a large group of contributing authors. It is not only in the interest of the community project as such, but it increases the credibility of the main output - the draft (or road towards) a low carbon energy ontology in support of metadata”.

Co-authorship is granted to active participants of the EERAdata workshop as well as to other contributors to the community paper.

EERAdata wiki - How to?

The easiest way is you simply start writing and editing. You can install an easy editor by doing what is described in the picture to the right.

How to install an easy editor

Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.

• Configuration settings list
• MediaWiki FAQ
• MediaWiki release mailing list
• Localise MediaWiki for your language
• Learn how to combat spam on your wiki

EERAdata on github

Link here and share your thoughts and issues! Note, work in progress.

• EERAdata@github

EERAdata @ Research Gate

Link here and share your thoughts and issues! Note, work in progress.

• EERAdata@ResearchGate

Just have fun!

Read before playing: This is a little memory game where players need to identify triples, that is three tiles that belong to one data set. All of them relate to low carbon energy. Some tiles have the form of a picture, others show metadata descriptions (in various formats) and some are even sound files. So, the game is to have fun, while learning about metadata. Try out if you can find all triples. Note if you have opened 3 tiles and they do not match, all will automatically close. Just as you know it from a real-life memory game. Link

Agenda and notes

Builds on read aheads. Online talks and discussions. Space for interaction with participants after each presentation. Moderated discussion of collected comments.

30th of November, 10-16	Topic
10.00-10.20	10.00-10.15 - Welcome and introduction to the first draft of the planned paper: “Advancing metadata for low carbon energy research - current state and call for action”, Valeria Jana Schwanitz & August Wierling, HVL. 10.15-10.30 - Discussion of the structure, collection of comments and notes 10.30-10.45 - Creation of writing teams in break out groups. Preferences are collected beforehand if possible. 10.45-15.00 - Work in writing teams (break out groups in zoom). The work-flow, coffee and lunch breaks etc. are organized by the groups themselves. 15.00-16.00 - Wrap up day 1 of the framing workshop: Reports from the work done in break out groups, collection of feedback and comments from all. Suggestions of questions to be investigated in use case workshops.
10.20-12.15	Text [1] EOSC Website: [2]
12.15-13.00	Lunch Break. Play the EERAdata game “Utopia and metadata”. Or any time.
13.00-14.00	Online lectures: