The following table of potential focus areas was derived from inputs received during the Kickoff meeting of the Data Discovery Paradigms IG at RDA Plenary #8
| Potential focus areas for the Data Discovery Interest Group | Category |
| Guidelines for making your data findable! Best practices based on experiences. | Standards & Best Practices |
| Identify core elements of Findability | Standards & Best Practices |
| Different discovery platforms for Open Search, science-focused OS profile? | Standards & Best Practices |
| Common APIs (e.g. OpenSearch) | Study |
| Deduplication and cross-repository issues | Study |
| Metadata standards to enhance data discovery, e.g. schema.org and such | Standards & Best Practices |
| Measures of data quality: and impact of findability | Standards & Best Practices |
| Implementing schema.org as it exists! How does it apply to science? | Standards & Best Practices |
| Identifiers and how they help in search | Study |
| Data citation: how do we access/use? | Defer to Data Citation WG |
| Relevancy ranking for structured data? | Study |
| Enrichment tools for faceting and ranking | Study |
| Domain-specific vs. generic issues: interfaces and enrichment | Study |
| Models and methods of personalization | Study |
| Automated integration of records; granularity and findability | Study |
| Upper-level ontologies for search | Semantics |
| “Return to the semantic”: schema has been populated by crowdsourcing rather than 1 researcher. | Semantics |
| Creating test collections for search evaluation and methods of evaluation | Tools & Testing |
| Collections and granules: build tool that enables guidance for data submitters on how data is organized | Tools & Testing |
| Define series of reference datasets – can be used to do these metrics | Tools & Testing |
| Identify list of prototyping tools, use by WG! | Tools & Testing |
| Identify collections of use cases for users: e.g. browsing vs search | Use Cases |
| Cross over between domains: how to enable cross-walk between domains | Study |
After merging the following list was voted on, resulting in the ranking below:
- Best Practices for making data findable
- Use cases, prototyping tools and test collections
- Metadata enrichment
- Cataloging common API's
- Relevancy ranking
- Granularity, domain-specific cross-domain issues
- De-duplication of search results
- Using upper-level ontologies
- Search personalisation
Tasks forces were formed for the top 5. These are their wiki pages, where notes and outputs will be posted. These pages are viewable by anyone who has joined the DDPIG.
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