Talk:WS1UC4

The other selected databases, are avaliable online except COMETS. On UC session Jan Zeiss presented more information about this database:

• COMETS database is created in a project with the same name.
• COMETS database contains information on collective actions initiatives for the energy transition for EU countries (inter alia, it contains information about more than 6000 energy production units).
• Data are derived from 3700 initiatives in selected European countries - Germany, Belgium, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Denmark.
• Data are collected based on the internet desk research, business registers, national electricity production statistics, individual websites etc.
• Within the COMES project in six countries (DE, ES, BE, PL, EE, NL) are conducting survey about the development and value of export/import of electricity. The data from it will be also included into the database.
• COMETS database is still under development - FAIRness is 0% for now.
• From COMETS project perspective, an important step for FAIRification is to facilitate by categorization, what and how specific activities are currently being implemented in different countries, categorization of them, taxonomy.

General conclusions from the discoussion

• In ideal database all country names would be linked to official registry -->then everybody could go for all information. Example on country information, which should be easily available automatically including ISO code for the country.
• It is important to know if the database is primary or secondary source - who is a creator of the data. All copies of documents can be available in many places, but it's important to inlclude information about "originals".
• When is the information about the date of update - should be also a link to the local page (to ensure that there is a possibility to check at the source, if the policy has been already updated).
• The significant is to determine what kind of metadata are important also for researchers (for us).
• It is important that the format of the data to be entered in specific entry is strictly defined (example - the date: need of clear definitions - what's to include: year, month, day specific?) Similarly - with longitude, latitute. If it's not done in advance, later on it takes much work to manually change it and put into right format. On the other hand - potentially - making a very specific description - may exclude some data, which are available but in different standards - for ecxample between EU and American standards.
• Some kind of glossary should be included in database, in accordance to international standards.
• If databases have publishable API, then information should be available.
• Every entry has its provenence, with information how and when the entry has been changed. Basically all entries should have their own metadata.

Identified problems:

• How to align the wording and taxonomy in the different languages context?
• There is no clear information in the Mark Wilkinson system: can you go on a higher rating level if the database has not reached the previous level. As a solution, each level of the Mark Wilkinson system was referred to during the databases evaluation.