Semantic artefact can be made accessible on various supports such as github or even web pages. Unfortunately, most of the time semantic artefacts need to be downloaded and parsed in order to have access to its content i.e. concepts/terms, relations and metadata.
This hampers the findability of the semantic artefact and makes reuse more difficult (see Rec. 2). To solve these issues, specific repository technologies have been developed to support the publication of semantic artefacts, their content and the metadata associated with the semantic artefacts. These “semantic repositories” provide interfaces for both humans and machines to consume semantic artefacts. They are an important piece of the infrastructure underlying the implementation of FAIR principles and FAIR Semantics as pointed out in the “Turning FAIR into reality” report and action plan (European Commission Expert Group on FAIR Data, 2018). These repositories act as an archive, should provide GUPRIs, publish metadata making the semantic artefact findable for human through a dedicated User Interface and for machines through an API. The number of such repositories is currently increasing with domain specific repositories and registries such as Bioportal, EBI-OLS, Ecoportal[19], Agroportal[20], BODC NERC vocabulary service[21] or more generic services such as Finto.fi[22] or Research Vocabulary Australia.
This recommendation does not aim to support any particular technology but emphasize the necessity to share/publish semantic artefact with one of them for improving both findability and reuse.
AgroPortal (CC @EamdouniGIT) - to complement previous post
AgroPortal is a reference ontology repository in the agri-food domain (cf. [https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2017.10.012)] based on the generic and open source OntoPortal technology. AgroPortal stores the content of ontologies and ontology metadata in an RDF triplestore.
Remark: the notion of semantic repository (used in the P-Rec description) is ambiguous.
We clearly believe that semantic repositories (e.g., NCBO BioPortal, EBI OLS, AgroPortal, Ontobee, BARTOC, etc.) play an essential role in publishing, archiving, and serving semantic artifacts.
AgroPortal and its content are very well indexed and retrievable directly via Web search engines which make ontologies even more findable. AgroPortal's metadata model offers a property (schema:includedInDataCatalog) to inform in which repositories or libraries an ontology is hosted. Plus, being in AgroPortal means that the ontologies will be automatically registered in FAIRsharing and Agrisemantics Map of Data Standards.
the Community Ontology Repository of ESIP, based on MMI's Ontology Registry and Repository software, is another viable Existing Technology (semantic repository).
Description
Semantic artefact can be made accessible on various supports such as github or even web pages. Unfortunately, most of the time semantic artefacts need to be downloaded and parsed in order to have access to its content i.e. concepts/terms, relations and metadata.
This hampers the findability of the semantic artefact and makes reuse more difficult (see Rec. 2). To solve these issues, specific repository technologies have been developed to support the publication of semantic artefacts, their content and the metadata associated with the semantic artefacts. These “semantic repositories” provide interfaces for both humans and machines to consume semantic artefacts. They are an important piece of the infrastructure underlying the implementation of FAIR principles and FAIR Semantics as pointed out in the “Turning FAIR into reality” report and action plan (European Commission Expert Group on FAIR Data, 2018). These repositories act as an archive, should provide GUPRIs, publish metadata making the semantic artefact findable for human through a dedicated User Interface and for machines through an API. The number of such repositories is currently increasing with domain specific repositories and registries such as Bioportal, EBI-OLS, Ecoportal[19], Agroportal[20], BODC NERC vocabulary service[21] or more generic services such as Finto.fi[22] or Research Vocabulary Australia.
This recommendation does not aim to support any particular technology but emphasize the necessity to share/publish semantic artefact with one of them for improving both findability and reuse.
Existing technologies:
● SKOSMOS[23]
● Bioportal[24]
● Research Vocabularies Australia[25]
Stakeholder: Practitioner
AgroPortal (CC @EamdouniGIT) - to complement previous post
AgroPortal is a reference ontology repository in the agri-food domain (cf. [https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2017.10.012)] based on the generic and open source OntoPortal technology. AgroPortal stores the content of ontologies and ontology metadata in an RDF triplestore.
Remark: the notion of semantic repository (used in the P-Rec description) is ambiguous.
AgroPortal (CC @jonquet )
We clearly believe that semantic repositories (e.g., NCBO BioPortal, EBI OLS, AgroPortal, Ontobee, BARTOC, etc.) play an essential role in publishing, archiving, and serving semantic artifacts.
AgroPortal and its content are very well indexed and retrievable directly via Web search engines which make ontologies even more findable. AgroPortal's metadata model offers a property (schema:includedInDataCatalog) to inform in which repositories or libraries an ontology is hosted. Plus, being in AgroPortal means that the ontologies will be automatically registered in FAIRsharing and Agrisemantics Map of Data Standards.
the Community Ontology Repository of ESIP, based on MMI's Ontology Registry and Repository software, is another viable Existing Technology (semantic repository).