NFDI4Cat is a community-driven and user-oriented initiative to secure the digital future of catalysis. NFDI4Cat has set up a data repository “Repo4Cat” based on the Dataverse platform (https://repository.nfdi4cat.org/). Due to the lack of catalysis-specific vocabularies and ontologies, NFDI4Cat has also created a community-managed SKOS vocabulary “Voc4Cat” (https://nfdi4cat.github.io/voc4cat/) to provide machine readable term definitions to be used for data annotation and in metadata schemas. Together with TS4NFDI NFDI4Cat wants to provide a better vocabulary browsing and search experience by serving Voc4Cat via Skosmos, a terminology browsing tool specifically optimized for SKOS vocabularies. Moreover, we want to integrate Voc4Cat annotation-widgets in the Repo4Cat data sharing platform in order to improve the metadata entry and interoperability.
NFDI4Cat Central Data Repository (Repo4Cat) is an incubator project within the Terminology Services (TS) basic service of Base4NFDI.
Current status
Finished — cycle 1 completed on 2025-10-31.
Timeline
- Start: 2025-02-12
- End: 2025-10-31
- Cycle: 1
Goals
- Setup a Skosmos terminology system
- Provide the skos-based Voc4Cat vocabulary via API
- Integration of Voc4Cat to Repo4Cat via Dataverse External Vocabulary Management
Results
Partners & entities
- Partner publications: 0
Notes
This report maps to row ts-nfdi4cat-central-data-repository-repo4cat in the NocoDB dashboard table.