WS2
The second workshop of EERAdata is organized as an online webinar and hackathon during November, 30, to December, 4th, 2020. It is dedicated to metadata.
Contents
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
Read & watch aheads
To prepare for the paper writing hackathon, please participate in the preparatory 'Briefing Workshop' or watch the recorded videos. The workshop took place Thursday, 5th of November, 10-12 CET. The workshop introduced recent work on metadata and outlined the tasks and procedures on how to join the writing team for the community.
| Agenda & Material of Briefing Workshop | Full video recording: link |
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| Slides: | Introduction & Talk Advancing metadata standards for low carbon energy research, August Wierling, HVL. |
| Slides: | Overview of the Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration Platform, Wolfgang Süß, KIT. |
| Slides: | Metadata in materials: The new path forward, Massimo Celino, ENEA. |
| Chat Notes: | Panel discussion with Q&A |
| Slides | Briefing for EERAdata paper writing workshop (Who? How? When? What?), Valeria Jana Schwanitz, EERAdata PI. |
- Invitation to comment the draft before the writing workshop
- Suggested read on the history of metadata
Metadata - Shaping Knowledge from Antiquity to the Semantic Web by Richard Gartner
Join us 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.
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 @ Research Gate
Link here and share your thoughts and issues! Note, work in progress.
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 Nov. | Framing workshop (Part 1): Online hackathon to write a community paper. Link to register: |
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| 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. |
| 1st Dec. | Use case “EU policy and energy research taxonomies” Link to register: |
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| 10am-2pm | The workshop focuses on metadata, exploring how to link ontologies used for policy-making and those used in research domains. Using the EU policy taxonomy, Art.2 EU Directive 944 (2019), and the inventory of collective action initiatives of the COMETS project as a starting point, common metadata elements and connections between them are identified. The workshop will use the software “upcoming” to design the ontology, incorporating suggestions from workshop participants. The participants will form one of the writing teams for the community paper. Link to zoom meeting: upcoming. Link to workshop page with agenda, notes and results |
| 2nd Dec. | Use case “Buildings efficiency” Link to register: |
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| 09:00-11:00 (GMT+1) | In this session, we will be building on discussions in 1st EERADATA workshop together with the participation of the invited experts, utilizing the experience related to the FAIR assessment in order to: a) Highlight main issues with FAIRness, b) Jointly come up with possible remedies and solutions, and d) Identify pointers to metadata standardization, if and how it can be achieved in Buildings Efficiency domain. Link to meeting: From your computer, tablet or smartphone. New to GoToMeeting? Get the app now and be ready when your first meeting starts. Link to workshop page with agenda, notes and results |
| 3rd Dec. | Use case “Meta data user stories” Link to register: |
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| to be confirmed | The goal is to understand how users find, use, and request data. The workshop connects to functional specifications needed for the EERAdata platform and other infrastructure in support of work flows. Participants will have the possibility to comment mock-ups and try out some functionalities. For example, browsing the ontologies produced during UC “EU policy and energy research taxonomies” and the community forum. Link to workshop page with agenda, notes and results Link to zoom meeting: upcoming. |
| 4th Dec. | Use case “Online art project” Link to register: |
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| to be confirmed | The goal is to produce a piece of art where energy researchers and stakeholders communicate their perspectives on the need for high quality and FAIR data for Sustainable Development. Link to zoom meeting: upcoming. |
| 7th Dec. | Framing workshop (Part 2): Online hackathon to write a community paper. Link to register: |
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| 10.00-10.45 | Welcome and input from use case workshops presented by use case leaders (see above). |
| 10.45-11.00 | Guidance for writing teams |
| 11.00-11.15 | Creation of writing teams in break out groups (continuation of day 1). |
| 11.15-15.00 | Work in break out groups. The work-flow, coffee and lunch breaks etc. are organized by the groups themselves. |
| 15.00-16.00 | Wrap up day 2 of the framing workshop: Reports from the work done in break out groups. Collection of feedback and comments from all. Guidance on how to finalize the paper collaboratively after the workshop. |
