SciMesh

Date

2023-04-04

Abstract

SciMesh is a set of specifications that define the representation of scientific results in form of a knowledge graph. While many such data formats focus on simulation data, SciMesh explicitly includes physical specimens as first-class citizens. Thus, provenance of both data and specimens can be documented. SciMesh’s immediate purpose is to represent content of electronic lab notebooks (ELNs) for sharing scientific results across ELN instances. This way, collaboration partners running different ELNs (even different ELN software) can have a uniform view on their collective results without media disruptions.

Authors

• Torsten Bronger 1, t.bronger@fz-juelich.de

• Michael Flemming 1, m.flemming@fz-juelich.de

• Hartmut Schlenz 2, h.schlenz@fz-juelich.de

• Michael Selzer 3, michael.selzer@kit.edu

• Manideep Jayavarapu 3, manideep.jayavarapu@kit.edu

1(1,2)

Forschungszentrum Jülich, ZB, Jülich, Germany

2

Forschungszentrum Jülich, IEK-1, Jülich, Germany

3(1,2)

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany

Note

The authors would like to thank the Federal Government and the Heads of Government of the Länder, as well as the Joint Science Conference (GWK), for their funding and support within the framework of the NFDI4Ing consortium. Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) – 442146713.

Contents:

• Status of this document
  • Todo list
• SciMesh at a glance
  • Introduction
  • Current scope of SciMesh
  • Data model overview
• SciMesh vocabulary
  • External vocabulary used in SciMesh
• Detailed description of the data model
  • The core
  • Concurrency
  • Unknown chronological order
• Prototype: JuliaBase
  • Give it a try!
• Note about content addressing
• Data provenance
  • Bulk data
  • Data input
  • Data output
• Implementation
  • Workflow
  • Getting the graph
  • Considerations about visualisation
  • Good URIs
  • Authentication