Register PaNET with ontology catalogues

[paulmillar]

The goal, here, is to increase exploitation by advertising PaNET as widely as is reasonable.

I reached out to Oonagh Mannix (from HMC), who was kind enough to provide a list of possible catalogues in which we could register PaNET:

• OBO Foundry: https://obofoundry.org/
• EMBL ontology look-up service: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols/index
• Ontobee: https://ontobee.org/
• https://bartoc.org/
• https://fairsharing.org/
• https://vocabs.ardc.edu.au/
• https://bioportal.bioontology.org/
• https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/

She adds:

Some of them might require some work to register (OBO foundry in particular would be great but probably require a lot of work).

She also offered help (from HMC) in getting PaNET registered in OBO. We could perhaps make this a joint project.

[paulmillar]

There is also RDA's Metadata Standards Catalog WG. Their work has resulted in a new metadata catalogue: the RDAMSC.

We should register PaNET within RDAMSC

[hgoerzig]

The PaNET ontology is registered here: https://service.tib.eu/ts4tib/ontologies It is the terminology service from NFDI4inf and NFDI4Chem

[servansod]

There is also RDA's Metadata Standards Catalog WG. Their work has resulted in a new metadata catalogue: the RDAMSC.

We should register PaNET within RDAMSC

Yes I was going to suggest the same, this RDA catalog is cited in the DMP template of the EC for H2020 projects, chapter 7, that's how I stumbled across it. I think PaNET fits the scope of the catalog but this means we need to add organizations and tools using PaNET.

• ICAT is already listed
• we could add Diamond?
• or the PaNOSC search portal?

I have an account and anyone can contribute to the RDA MSC, so I can add it if you agree.

[spc93]

Sorry I've not really looked into this much, except for the previous work with Bioportal. Could someone possibly explain the functional benefits of registration?

[paulmillar]

Although there are ontologies that exist in order to describe and explore a domain-of-interest, one of the key goals for PaNET is to establish a set of PIDs for the research techniques used at PaN facilities. These PaNET PIDs only really make sense if they're actually used somewhere: in datasets, in publications, in beamline descriptions, in user-office portals, in training material, etc. Therefore the motivation for sustaining PaNET comes from people actually using PaNET PIDs.

Registering PaNET in different metadata catalogues is a way of advertising that PaNET exists. While there's no guarantees, doing this opens the possibility to it being adopted by new communities or in new environments.