Features of a FAIR vocabulary

Journal of Biomedical Semantics

Research

Fuqi Xu¹  Helen Parkinson¹  Mélanie Courtot²  Simon Jupp³  Carole Goble⁴  Nick Juty⁴ 

[1] European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Wellcome Genome Campus, CB10 1SD, Cambridge, Hinxton, UK;European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Wellcome Genome Campus, CB10 1SD, Cambridge, Hinxton, UK;Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, 661 University Ave Suite 510, M5G 0A3, Toronto, Canada;Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, M5G 1L7, Toronto, ON, Canada;SciBite BioData Innovation Centre, Wellcome Genome Campus, CB10 1DR, Hinxton, UK;The University of Manchester, Oxford Rd, M13 9PL, Manchester, UK;

关键词: FAIR principles;    Ontology;    Vocabulary;    FAIR assessment;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s13326-023-00286-8

 received in 2022-03-18, accepted in 2023-04-27,  发布年份 2023

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundThe Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable(FAIR) Principles explicitly require the use of FAIR vocabularies, but what precisely constitutes a FAIR vocabulary remains unclear. Being able to define FAIR vocabularies, identify features of FAIR vocabularies, and provide assessment approaches against the features can guide the development of vocabularies.ResultsWe differentiate data, data resources and vocabularies used for FAIR, examine the application of the FAIR Principles to vocabularies, align their requirements with the Open Biomedical Ontologies principles, and propose FAIR Vocabulary Features. We also design assessment approaches for FAIR vocabularies by mapping the FVFs with existing FAIR assessment indicators. Finally, we demonstrate how they can be used for evaluating and improving vocabularies using exemplary biomedical vocabularies.ConclusionsOur work proposes features of FAIR vocabularies and corresponding indicators for assessing the FAIR levels of different types of vocabularies, identifies use cases for vocabulary engineers, and guides the evolution of vocabularies.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
© The Author(s) 2023

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