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2025 July ESIP Meeting
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Community-derived validation suites for schema.org Dataset interoperability
Wednesday July 23, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm PDT
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Schema.org metadata has become an important, interoperable thread linking repositories across the Earth sciences. The Science-on-schema.org (SOSO) guidelines provide ESIP-wide recommendations for how data providers should structure and provide Dataset metadata in unambiguous and consistent ways with schema.org. Nevertheless, the community would benefit from improved tooling and a shared understanding of what it means to be compliant with SOSO guidelines, and which fields are required and optional for various downstream metadata use cases. Towards that end, this will be a working session of the SOSO cluster focused on community agreement on validation rules and approaches for Science-on-Schema.org Dataset records. We are looking for useful use cases and applications from data aggregators (e.g., DataONE, Google, Ocean Info Hub), as well as from data facilities like repositories, and other researcher-driven validation needs. The session will focus on the following activities:

1. Quick overview of use cases for SOSO validation requirements, and how they might vary across different use cases and applications
2. Brainstorm, review, and revise a set of proposed validation rules for different SOSO use cases
3. Discuss and decide which validation rules are required and recommended for each of several use cases (possibly in breakout groups if the group is large)
4. Discussion of next steps to formalize and release as a product

Value to Session Participants: Participants will benefit by being able to contribute to and learn from community perspectives on metadata use cases, validation needs, and validation approaches. Ultimately, we expect the community input from this session will lead to improved tooling that participants can use in their own data facilities for improving metadata and data delivery services.

Recommended Ways to Prepare for this Session:
- Review the SOSO Dataset Guidelines
- Think about your use cases for metadata validation
- Bring example JSON-LD docs from your community if desired to see how they meet various use cases
- If desired, familiarize yourself with SHACL as a validation language
Speakers
avatar for Matt Jones

Matt Jones

Director of Informatics R&D, University of California Santa Barbara
DataONE | Arctic Data Center | Open Science | Provenance and Semantics | Cyberinfrastructure
avatar for Chantelle Verhey

Chantelle Verhey

Research Associate, International Technology Office & Ocean Networks Canada
Chantelle Verhey is a Research Associate for the World Data System-International Technology Office hosted at Ocean Networks Canada. She has a Masters of Science in Environmental Management from the University of Reading in the UK, and was dedicated to researching Forest fire trends... Read More →
avatar for Rebecca Ringuette

Rebecca Ringuette

Principal Open Science Scientist, Heliophysics Digital Resource Library at NASA Goddard
Heliophysics infrastructure (e.g. archives, data access/utilization), making resources (archives, software, notebooks, etc) more discoverable and open, more level citation (software and models in addition to data), how to make science reproducible and interactive, and current efforts... Read More →
avatar for Adam Shepherd

Adam Shepherd

Technical Director @ BCO-DMO, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Architecting adaptive and sustainable data infrastructures.Co-chair of the ESIP schema.org clusterKnowledge Graphs | Data Containerization | Declarative Workflows | Provenance | schema.org
Wednesday July 23, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm PDT
TBA
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