EERAdata 1st workshop summarized by artist Barbara Bellier

FAIR and Open Metadata for Low Carbon Energy Research is a week-long workshop series taking place between the 30 November and the 7 December. It includes 2 Framing Sessions to collaborate on the community paper and 4 Topical Sessions (throughout the week). 

IMPORTANT NOTE: You can select the sessions in which you want to participate. It is not obligatory to participate in all of them. The registrations are therefore independent for each session and you should subscribe to those in which you would like to participate. For joining as co-author in the community paper you do not need to participate in the workshops. For further details about this, see further down: Join us and collaborate interactively!

Framing Sessions

Framing Sessions Day 1 and Day 2 (Paper Writing Sessions): 

• Day 1: 30 November 10:00a.m. to 4:00p.m. CET
• Day 2: 7 December 10:00a.m. to 4:00p.m. CET

The objectives of the Framing Sessions are to:

• Discuss and develop metadata standards for FAIR and open data in the low carbon energy research community (at top-, medium-, and low-level).
• Identify gaps and needs that hinder their standardized realization and implementation.
• Jointly work on the "Advancing Metadata for Low Carbon Energy Research" paper. 

Recording Framing Session Day 1: First part / Second part

Recording Framing Session Day 2

Topical Sessions

During the week, some of the EERAdata use cases leaders will organize in-between topical sessions whose input will enrich the framing discussions. 

Topical Sessions are: 

• 1 December 10:00a.m. - 2:00p.m. CET: Use Case Session “EU policy and energy research taxonomies” - a practical session to explore how to link existing ontology islands with the help of a software. 

Recording Use Case Session “EU policy and energy research taxonomies”

• 2 December 10:00a.m. - 12:00p.m. CET: Use Case Session "Buildings efficiency" - a session with invited lectures and panel discussions. 

Recording Use Case Session "Buildings efficiency": upcoming

• 3 December 10:00a.m. - 12:00p.m. CET: "Metadata user stories" Session- matching metadata with workflows of searching for data. 

Recording "Metadata user stories" Session

• 4 December 10:00a.m. - 3:00p.m. CET: "Online art project - FAIR data & SDGs". The goal is to jointly produce a piece of art where energy researchers and stakeholders communicate their perspectives on the need for high quality and FAIR data for Sustainable Development. For further information about the inspiring work we will be doing on this day, please check this page.

• 4 December 4:00p.m. - 6:00p.m. CET: EERAdata will contribute to the International FAIR Convergence Symposium to the session M4M Workshop: Making domain-relevant machine-actionable metadata at scale. 
  

To see the details of the whole workshop agenda, please visit the EERAdata webpage dedicated to the event. 

Recommendations for the Framing Sessions (30 November and 7 December)

Given that one of the objectives of the Framing Sessions aims at jointly working on a paper, the consortium suggests to the interested participants the following material to read and watch ahead the first day.

Obligatory to read and watch ahead:

• Participation or watching of preparatory workshop video: This workshop has taken place in the beginning of November. It introduced EERAdata’s recent work on metadata, and it outlined the tasks and procedures for the paper writing workshop(s). To access the preparatory workshop materias, click here. 

Suggested read on the history of metadata:

Metadata - Shaping Knowledge from Antiquity to the Semantic Web by Richard Gartner, https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319408910

The first day of the Framing Sessions (30 November) builds on read and watch ahead. Starts with a discussion of the proposed structure of the community paper. Continues with writing teams organized in break out groups. Ends with a report from writing teams.

The second day of the Framing Sessions (7 December), starts with inputs from selected use cases and continues with writing teams organized in breakout groups. Ends with a presentation and discussion of work/open issues.                     

Output expected: Reviewed and extended draft of the community paper, which will be finalized by the group and ready for submission before end of December 2020. 

Join us and collaborate interactively!

Additional details about the Community Paper "Advancing Metadata for Low Carbon Energy Research" and on the modalities to join the writing team are available on the EERAdata Wiki at this link.