Establishment of good practices for the usage of machine-actionable core metrological terminology
Giacomo Lanza, Martin Koval, Federico Grasso Toro, Mark Kuster, Hugo Gasca-Aragon, Diego Nahuel Coppa, Maitane Iturrate‐Garcia, Michaela Küpferling, Maximilian Gruber, Jean-Laurent Hippolyte, Luca P. Mari · Measurement Sensors · 2024
With progressing digitalisation of scientific research and metrological services, the exchange and reuse of data benefits from the usage of standard metadata schemas and controlled terminologies as a “common language” to describe, search and filter data. However, no framework yet unifies metrology-related endeavours to rigorously deal with machine-actionable data. Normative terminology documents often lack machine-readability, while community-driven machine-readable terminologies lack both metrological rigour and comprehensiveness. The resulting fragmented landscape makes it difficult for end users to adopt a good practice in registering data. Our contribution takes a step to cover this gap, by providing a unified overview of all relevant recommendations in a comprehensive and accessible way, in agreement with authoritative regulation bodies, current good practices, and existing digital-object validation platforms. Our activity will focus on a machine-readable version of the International Vocabulary of Metrology (VIM).