The Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework (CDIF) is a major output from the WorldFAIR project, and has been published as an initial draft with the completion of project deliverables. CDIF is a set of implementation recommendations, based on profiles of common, domain-neutral metadata standards which are aligned to work together to support core functions required by FAIR. CDIF will continue to be developed and maintained, based on feedback from implementers and the broader FAIR community.
This webinar will:
This webinar is intended to introduce the current recommendations, and describe future directions. The initial CDIF draft covers the following core set of functions necessary to support FAIR exchanges across domain and infrastructure boundaries:
Additionally, guidance is provided on some ‘universal’ areas which are critical to data integration: time, geography, and units of measure.
Much work remains to be done, and some discussion is provided in the draft of other topics which will serve as the focus of future work: mappings between data sets, provenance and data contextualization, expanded description of data sets and the integration process, and AI readiness. Other relevant topics may emerge.
CDIF is intended to be maintained as the needs of the community develop, and as the technology and standards picture changes. In order to sustain the development of the recommendations, it is important to have an active dialogue with implementers and the FAIR community broadly. To this end, channels will be introduced for providing reactions and feedback, for both implementers and business-level users to help drive the future directions of the CDIF development. Opportunities for active engagement with the CDIF development community will also be described.
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