P-Rec. 2: Globally Unique, Persistent and Resolvable Identifiers must be used for Semantic Artefact Metadata Records. Metadata and data must be published separately, even if it is managed jointly. (D2.5) #29
Semantic artefacts are often built as containers including both their descriptive metadata and data. Commonly, semantic artefacts contain a set of concepts and their descriptions and are identified by a URL pointing to a file to download which should be parsed to access the content including the metadata. These practices contribute to the lack of findability by hiding the metadata to machines. For this purpose, it is necessary to consider publishing the ontology metadata separately allowing potential users to find it.
This metadata record should also have a GUPRI (Globally Unique, Persistent and Resolvable Identifier - FAIR principle F1) and an explicit reference to the semantic artefact it describes (FAIR principle F3). In this way, search engines can retrieve and index metadata that uniquely point to their related semantic artefacts. This recommendation puts an emphasis on the necessity to publish metadata separately from the semantic artefact and have services to share/ publish ontologies which should support the extraction and the publication of their metadata as suggested in P-Rec. 4.
Semantic artefacts are often built as containers including both their descriptive metadata and data. Commonly, semantic artefacts contain a set of concepts and their descriptions and are identified by a URL pointing to a file to download which should be parsed to access the content including the metadata. These practices contribute to the lack of findability by hiding the metadata to machines. For this purpose, it is necessary to consider publishing the ontology metadata separately allowing potential users to find it.
This metadata record should also have a GUPRI (Globally Unique, Persistent and Resolvable Identifier - FAIR principle F1) and an explicit reference to the semantic artefact it describes (FAIR principle F3). In this way, search engines can retrieve and index metadata that uniquely point to their related semantic artefacts. This recommendation puts an emphasis on the necessity to publish metadata separately from the semantic artefact and have services to share/ publish ontologies which should support the extraction and the publication of their metadata as suggested in P-Rec. 4.