Crosswalks from the NFDI4DS hackathon "machine-actionable Data Management Plan for NFDI"

Summary

From 28 to 30 October 2024, ZB MED Information Centre for Life Sciences organized a hackathon in Cologne within the scope of NFDI4DataScience with the purpose of identifying core elements for a machine-actionable Data Managemnt Plan (maDMP) across the German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI). We used as a starting/reference point the maDMP application profile from the Research Data Alliance DMP Commons Working Group. An additional element, ManagementPlan, was also included. Management Plan comes originally from DataCite v4.4, its representation as an extension proposed by the ZB MED/NFDI4DataScience machine-actionable Software Management Plan metadata schema was used.

This dataset comprises crosswalks corresponding to the following elements from the RDA maDMP: DMP, Project, Dataset, Distribution. The crosswalks were created following a template prepared by the organizers. Participants freely select a metadata schema or platform to be mapped with regards to the attributes in the RDA maDMP application profile. Crosswalks were created for DMP, Project, Dataset, and Distribution, while comments were provided by DMP and Dataset.

The list of files in this dataset is as follows:

Crosswalk template: two spreadsheets (AllTemplates.ods and AllTemplates.xlsx) containing 13 tabs corresponding to the instructions (InstructionsAllTemplates.pdf and InstructionsAllTemplates.tsv), crosswalks templates for Management Plan (CrosswalkTemplate-MngPlan.tsv), DMP (CrosswalkTemplate-DMP.tsv), Project (CrosswalkTemplate-Project.tsv), Dataset (CrosswalkTemplate-Dataset.tsv), Distribution (CrosswalkTemplate-Distribution.tsv) and Host (CrosswalkTemplate-Host.tsv), and comment templates for all the same elements Management Plan (CommentsTemplate-MngPlan.tsv), DMP (CommentsTemplate-DMP.tsv), Project (CommentsTemplate-Project.tsv), Dataset (CommentsTemplate-Dataset.tsv), Distribution (CommentsTemplate-Distribution.tsv) and Host (CommentsTemplate-Host.tsv). The crosswalk templates are meant to be used to compare a source against the reference point while the comment templates are meant to be used to provide comments to the reference point. Eash tab/crosswalk is also provided as individual TSV files. The crosswalk and comment templates contain the following columns:

Crosswalk for the reference source: Property, Range, Description, Cardinality (One, Many), Requirement (minimum, recommended, optional), Example

Crosswalk for the mapped source: Property, Range, Description, Cardinality (One, Many), Requirement (minimum, recommended, optional), Recommended Vocabulary, Comment, Review

Comments for the reference source: Property, Range, Description, Cardinality (One, Many), Requirement (minimum, recommended, optional), Example

Comments for the mapped source: Comments to Property, Comments to Range, Comments to Description, Comments to Cardinality (One, Many), Comments to Requirement (minimum, recommended, optional), Recommended Vocabulary

Crosswalk summary: two spreadsheets (Summary.ods and Summary.xlsx) containing six tabs corresponding to crosswalks summary for DMP (Summary-DMP.tsv), Project (Summary-Project.tsv), Dataset (Summary-Dataset.tsv), and Distribution (Summary-Distribution.tsv), and comments summary forDMP (Summary-Comments-DMP.tsv), and Dataset (Summary-Comments-Dataset.tsv). Eash tab/crosswalk is also provided as individual TSV files. The crosswalks and comments always contain the reference point (i.e, as defined by the RDA maDMP application profile) and the following mapped resources, separated by an empty (blue) column:

Crosswalks for DMP: RDMO, DataPLAN, NFDIxCS, Horizon Europe, DFG Checklist, DataCite, and GFBio_DMPT

Comments to DMP: NFDIxCS

Crosswalks for Project: RDMO, Metadata4Ing, NFDIxCS, Schema.org, and DFG Checklist

Crosswalks for Dataset: RDMO, DataPLAN, Metadata4Ing, NFDIxCS, Horizon Europe, DFG Checklist, and DataCite

Comments to Dataset: NFDIxCS

Crosswalks for Distribution: RDMO and Metadata4Ing

Crosswalks to RDMO: two spreadsheets (RDMO.ods and RDMO.xlsx) containing four tabs corresponding to the crosswalks for DMP (RDMO-DMP.tsv), Project (RDMO-Project.tsv), Dataset (RDMO-Dataset.tsv) and Distribution (RDMO-Distribution.tsv). Eash tab/crosswalk is also provided as individual TSV files.

Crosswalks to DataPLAN: two spreadsheets (DataPLAN.ods and DataPLAN.xlsx) containing two tabs corresponding to the crosswalks for DMP (DataPLAN-DMP.tsv) and Dataset (DataPLAN-Dataset.tsv). Eash tab/crosswalk is also provided as individual TSV files.

Crosswalks to Metadata4Ing: two spreadsheets (Metadata4Ing.ods and Metadata4Ing.xlsx) containing three tabs corresponding to the crosswalks for Project (Metadata4Ing-Project.tsv), Dataset (Metadata4Ing-Dataset.tsv) and Distribution (Metadata4Ing-Distribution.tsv). Eash tab/crosswalk is also provided as individual TSV files.

Crosswalks to NFDIxCS: two spreadsheets (NFDIxCS.ods and NFDIxCS.xlsx) containing five tabs corresponding to the crosswalks for DMP (NFDIxCS-DMP.tsv), Project (NFDIxCS-Project.tsv), and Dataset (NFDIxCS-Dataset.tsv), and additional comments for DMP (NFDIxCS-Comments-to-DMP.tsv) and Dataset (NFDIxCS-Comments-to-Dataset.tsv). Eash tab/crosswalk is also provided as individual TSV files.

Crosswalks to Schema.org: two spreadsheets (SchemaOrg.ods and SchemaOrg.xlsx) containing one tab corresponding to the crosswalk for Project (SchemaOrg-Project.tsv). Eash tab/crosswalk is also provided as individual TSV files.

Crosswalks to Horizon Europe as recorded in its RDMO template: two spreadsheets (HorizonEurope.ods and HorizonEurope.xlsx) containing two tabs corresponding to the crosswalks for DMP (HorizonEurope-DMP.tsv) and Dataset (HorizonEurope-Dataset.tsv). Eash tab/crosswalk is also provided as individual TSV files.

Crosswalks to DFG Checklist as recorded in its template in RDMO: two spreadsheets (DFGChecklist.ods and RDFGChecklistMO.xlsx) containing three tabs corresponding to the crosswalks for DMP (DFGChecklist-DMP.tsv), Project (DFGChecklist-Project.tsv), and Dataset (DFGChecklist-Dataset.tsv). Eash tab/crosswalk is also provided as individual TSV files.

Crosswalks to DataCite v4.5: two spreadsheets (DataCite.ods and DataCite.xlsx) containing two tabs corresponding to the crosswalks for DMP (DataCite-DMP.tsv) and Dataset (DataCite-Dataset.tsv). Eash tab/crosswalk is also provided as individual TSV files.

Crosswalks to GFBio_DMPT: two spreadsheets (GFBio_DMPT.ods and GFBio_DMPT.xlsx) containing one tabs corresponding to the crosswalk for DMP (GFBio_DMPT-DMP.tsv). Eash tab/crosswalk is also provided as individual TSV files.

More information about the activities carried out during the hackathon and the analysis of the crosswalks will be available soon.

Acknowledgements

The activities and discussion reported here were carried out during a hackathon organized by the Semantic Technologies team at ZB MED Information Centre from 28 to 30 October 2024 in Cologne, Germany, and sponsored by the NFDI4DataScience consortium. NFI4DataScience is funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft – DFG) under the grant No. 460234259

The DMP4NFDI team acknowledges the support of DFG - German Research Foundation - through the coordination fund (project number 521466146).

David Wallace and Jürgen Windeck would like to thank the Federal Government and the Heads of Government of the Länder, as well as the Joint Science Conference (GWK), for their funding and support within the framework of the NFDI4ING consortium. Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) - project number 442146713.

Marco Reidelbach is supported by MaRDI, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), project number 460135501, NFDI 29/1 “MaRDI – Mathematische Forschungsdateninitiative”.