Heritage Science Interoperability

Ongoing work in relation to the IPERION-HS project and the related E-RIHS IP project, to explore methods to improve interoperability across Heritage Science data. At this stage we are working to define the required meta and para-data needed to ensure that data gathered during technical examinations can be FAIR. To achieve this we are currently working on a number of steps:

Current Development

Comments and descriptions still to be added

1. Define discrete Re-usable data modules: This work is currently ongoing - see here
2. Map the relationships between data modules: This work is currently ongoing - see here
3. Define the core meta data fields needed for each data module: Work related to the development of vocabularies will brought together here
4. Define the generic JSON schema template for each data module:
5. Define the specific versions of these JSON schema templates: The JSON schema are being organised here
6. Define initial storage for gathered metadata: The core storage structure for the E-RIHS metadata will make use of the Cordra software and the administration interface will be hosted here
7. Begin to gather test metadata: on going ....

Future Work

1. Define production data storage and search options:
2. Integrate existing data into the process of gathering new related data:
3. Design improved GUIs for customised data entry

Related Tools and Services

Here are some of the tools being used or considered as part of this work:

The Dynamic Modeller

An interactive live modelling system which can automatically convert simple tab separated triples into graphical models using the mermaid library.

• Code: https://github.com/jpadfield/dynamic-modelling
• Live tool: https://research.ng-london.org.uk/modelling/
• https://github.com/bumbu/svg-pan-zoom also being considered for presentation of models.

Json Form Editors

Both of these systems are currently being used to test the auto generation of the forms from agreed JSON schema templates.

• https://bytes.kikirpa.be/form-generator/ (https://github.com/KIKIRPA/form-generator)
• https://github.com/json-editor/json-editor The actual production forms (for administration purposes) will be based on:
• https://cordra.org/

Json Validators

• https://www.jsonschemavalidator.net/
• https://jsonlint.com/

Acknowledgement

This project was developed and tested as part of the work of the following projects:

The H2020 IPERION-HS project

IPERION-HS has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 call H2020-INFRAIA-2019-1, under GA 871034

The Horizon Europe E-RIHS IP project

E-RIHS IP has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe call HORIZON-INFRA-2021-DEV-02, Grant Agreement n.101079148.