OpenAIRE Releases SKG-IF Compliant Datasets for SciLake Pilots
In a significant stride towards enhancing scholarly knowledge interoperability, OpenAIRE has released datasets compliant with the Scientific Knowledge Graph Interoperability Framework (SKG-IF) for all five SciLake pilot domains. These datasets represent a crucial development in making research information more accessible and interoperable across different communities. This blog post explores these new resources and their importance for advancing scholarly communication.
What's New
OpenAIRE has created specialized datasets in the Scientific Knowledge Graph Interoperability Framework (SKG-IF) format, tailored specifically for the SciLake project pilots. This work, coordinated by Miriam Baglioni (CNR), represents a significant advancement in making scholarly knowledge more accessible and interoperable across research communities.
Each dataset contains relevant scholarly information from the OpenAIRE Graph and follows the SKG-IF core model structure, which comprises six fundamental entities:
- Research product: Includes research literature, data, software, or other scholarly outputs
- Agent: Represents individuals, organizations, or entities involved in creating or publishing research
- Data source: Services or platforms where research products are stored and made accessible
- Venue: Publishing gateways used to make research available
- Grant: Funding awarded to agents by funding bodies
- Topic: Scientific disciplines, subjects, and keywords relevant to research products
This development represents an important achievement for the SciLake project, enabling more efficient data integration and knowledge discovery across different research domains.
Access the Datasets
The SciLake SKG-IF compliant datasets are now available on Zenodo:
- Cancer research pilot: https://zenodo.org/records/15781620
- Energy planning pilot: https://zenodo.org/records/15855143
- Neuroscience pilot: https://zenodo.org/records/15856315
- Transport (CCAM) pilot: https://zenodo.org/records/15856727
- Transport (Maritime) pilot: https://zenodo.org/records/15856795
About SKG-IF
The SKG-IF framework, developed under the Research Data Alliance umbrella, addresses interoperability challenges in scholarly knowledge graphs by standardizing the representation of research products, agents, data sources, venues, grants, and topics. OpenAIRE is among the early adopters of this framework, working to make their Graph API SKG-IF compliant while maintaining support for existing API formats.
For more information about the SKG-IF:
- Visit the website: https://skg-if.github.io/
- Check the presentation by Andrea Mannocci (CNR), from the 16th OpenAIRE Graph Community Call: https://zenodo.org/records/15703188
With these new specialized datasets, SKG-IF continues to gain momentum in the scholarly knowledge graph community, providing SciLake pilots with interoperable data resources while encouraging wider adoption of this promising framework.