An URI lookup and resolve service for LOD resources related to collection research

Description

Chairs: Florian Thiery, Allard Mees, Øyvind Eide

Research domain-specific modelled Linked Open Data (LOD), e.g. distributed thesauri, must be dynamically integrated into collection research databases to enable a common understanding of the research data.

The registry entries recorded in the Catalogue of authority files and community-driven vocabularies Service and the associated standards and ontologies elicited form the starting point for a much-needed FAIRification tool for LOD in archaeology: the re3dragon tool (REsearch REsource REgistry for Data Dragons). The re3dragon makes it possible to collect overarching authority files and community-driven vocabularies, as well as LOD published from domain-specific research collections, to search in them and yield individual terms in a machine-readable, standardised data format.

The TRAIL, therefore, addresses the “enrich & interpret” and “share, publish & discover” aspects of the research data lifecycle and contributes to the FAIRification of domain-specific concepts. The aim of this TRAIL is, first, to enhance the functionality of the tool by integrating in the search routines new authority files, community-driven vocabularies and LOD resources based on the white paper derived from TRAIL 2.1 and name authority files from TRAIL 2.4. Second, we will expand the technical specification of the JSKOS data exchange format, which is already supported by re3dragon, to include missing object-specific criteria.