White Paper on Research Data Service Discoverability
Costantino Thanos,
Friederike Klan,
Kyriakos Kritikos,
Leonardo Candela
Affiliations
Costantino Thanos
Institute of Information Science and Technologies, National Research Council of Italy, 56124 Pisa, Italy
Friederike Klan
Institute of Computer Science, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Ernst-Abbe-Platz 2-4, 07743 Jena, Germany
Kyriakos Kritikos
Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology—Hellas (FORTH), N. Plastira 100, Vasilika Voytwn, GR-700 13 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Leonardo Candela
Institute of Information Science and Technologies, National Research Council of Italy, 56124 Pisa, Italy
This White Paper reports the outcome of a Workshop on “Research Data Service Discoverability” held in the island of Santorini (GR) on 21–22 April 2016 and organized in the context of the EU funded Project “RDA-E3”. The Workshop addressed the main technical problems that hamper an efficient and effective discovery of Research Data Services (RDSs) based on appropriate semantic descriptions of their functional and non-functional aspects. In the context of this White Paper, by RDSs are meant those data services that manipulate/transform research datasets for the purpose of gaining insight into complicated issues. In this White Paper, the main concepts involved in the discovery process of RDSs are defined; the RDS discovery process is illustrated; the main technologies that enable the discovery of RDSs are described; and a number of recommendations are formulated for indicating future research directions and making an automatic RDS discovery feasible.
