NanoCommons started in 2021 making an index of EU NanoSafety Cluster datasets that have been archived with an open license that allows reuse and received a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) [1].
The overview provides some basic metadata including the datasets title, release date, license information, and the project from which the dataset originated.
This implements some key aspects of the FAIR principles. Furthermore, the way this index is setup ensures that Google Dataset Search discovers the metadata and makes these datasets even more findable. Technically, it reuses solutions developed by the ELIXIR Bioschemas project [2]. A recent addition of more than twenty datasets from NanoSolveIT doubles total number of datasets, provided by the NSC projects NanoPUZZLES, NanoCare, NanoMILE, NANoREG, NanoCommons, NanoSolveIT, SABYDOMA, NanoReg2, NANORIGO, and ASINA. The next main effort is to improve the keyword annotation, for example, listing the specific nanomaterials a datasets is about. Here, we are excited about the adoption of the European Registry of Materials identifiers [3] listed in some of the datasets descriptions. Additions can be reported to the Working Group F and via this issue tracker.
- Egon Willighagen, & Ammar Ammar. (2022). NanoCommons/datasets: Release 2022-04-26 (2022-04-26). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7088624
- Gray, A.J.G, Goble, C.A. and Jimenez, R., 2017. Bioschemas: From Potato Salad to Protein Annotation. In International Semantic Web Conference (Posters, Demos & Industry Tracks).
- Van Rijn, J., Afantitis, A., Culha, M. et al. European Registry of Materials: global, unique identifiers for (undisclosed) nanomaterials. J Cheminform 14, 57 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13321-022-00614-7