Roadmap

1. Creating a semantic engine that will help researchers create and use better machine-actionable, reusable, and accessible descriptions and governance for their data, projects, algorithms, tools, workflows, and other digital research outputs.
2. Collaborating on projects that will enable the federation of data silos. A federation of these silos will require processes that allow data access, authentication, and data transfer standards. These technologies will ensure that data, metadata, and access rights travel with the data from source to destination within the ADC federation.
3. Developing tools to help researchers with data provenance and traceability. Cryptographically verifiable information about data origin and creation processes will allow researchers to transform data, audit and evaluate the quality of and trust in data, model authenticity, and implement access control for derived data.
4. Creating a culture of FAIR data by developing knowledge-sharing resources such as webinars, training, and teaching materials. ADC works with partners to align our approaches and contribute to the global research community.

Under development

• Semantic Engine: Data entry into data portals via Data Entry Web tools.
• Semantic Engine Governance: Manage data requests.

Deployments

(note with continuous development new features are frequently deployed)

• 2025-03-27: OCA Composer supports OCA Package for schema authoring
• 2024-09-12: Data Entry Web with Verification. Use a schema to verify a dataset through the web browser.
• 2024-07-01: White labelling and language switching support. Connect with us to incorporate the Semantic Engine in your own project with your own branding, language and specific help -details.
• 2024-03-27: OCA Composer released as v1.0.0 (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10883563)
• 2024-03-07: Array variable cardinality rules and entry code import functions