SEMAF: A Proposal for a Flexible Semantic Mapping Framework

Flexible Metadata Schemes for Research Data Repositories.The Common Framework in Dataverse and the CMDI Use Case

“…Most of the CMDI mappings are done by the CLARIN community using XSLT transformations (Haaf et al, 2014). To improve the situation, Broeder et al (2021) proposed the flexible Semantic Mapping Framework (SEMAF) to create, document and publish semantic mappings and cross-walks, linking different semantic artefacts within a particular scientific community and across scientific domains (Myers et al, 2021).…”

“…Beyond the extension of the Citation Core set of Dataverse, it is envisioned to support a link between other 'indexing' metadata fields to the other Knowledge Organisation Systems providers. In particular, we think here of recommended FAIR controlled vocabularies and ontologies which potentially may become part of the set of metadata fields (Wilkinson et al, 2016;Broeder et al, 2021;Wang, M. et al, 2021). Coming back to the CMDI case, this could lead to linkages of recognized, or any, CMDI metadata values to a recommended ontology or controlled vocabulary with the aim to produce '5-star Linked Open Data' 41 .…”