Improved FAIRness through the simple use of standardized terms: TS4NFDI in RADAR (Base4NFDI)

As part of an incubator project, the TS4NFDI basic service was integrated into the interdisciplinary research data repository RADAR, as well as its disciplinary services RADAR4Chem,  RADAR4Culture & RADAR4Memory.

The goal was to simplify metadata description for researchers while simultaneously improving the findability, accessibility, interoperability, and ultimately the quality and reusability of datasets.

TS4NFDI (Terminology Services 4 NFDI) provides access to quality-assured, domain-specific collections of terms (terminologies or terminology collections) that help researchers describe their data in a consistent and machine-readable manner.

In RADAR, data providers can now access these standardized terminology collections in the “Keywords” field. 

As users enter data, the system automatically suggests relevant terms that can be selected directly. In RADAR4Chem, the curated NFDI4Chem terminology collection is already preset; additional discipline-specific terminology collections can be activated as needed

For researchers, this means, above all, less effort and consistent metadata. Those who reuse research data benefit from semantic links to standardized terms and additional contextual information.

This makes the datasets easier to understand.

A key advantage is that the terms used are unambiguous, uniquely identifiable, and machine-readable. This makes it easier to link data—for example, by integrating it into knowledge graphs—and to find and combine it across disciplinary boundaries.

More information:

• https://terminology.services.base4nfdi.de/ 

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