Repository details
LifeWatch ERIC Metadata Catalogue
Name of repository
LifeWatch ERIC Metadata Catalogue
Repository URL
Subject(s)
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Social and Behavioural Sciences
- Educational Research
- Life Sciences
- Biology
- Plant Sciences
- Zoology
- Agriculture, Forestry and Veterinary Medicine
- Agriculture, Forestry and Veterinary Medicine
- Soil Sciences
- Ecology of Land Use
- Forestry
- Natural Sciences
- Geosciences
- Atmospheric Science, Oceanography and Climate Research
- Engineering Sciences
- Computer Science, Systems and Electrical Engineering
- Computer Science
- Software Engineering and Programming Languages
- Security and Dependability, Operating, Communication and Distributed Systems
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Methods
- Data Management, Data-Intensive Systems, Computer Science Methods in Business Informatics
Description
The LifeWatch ERIC Metadata Catalogue is a GeoNetwork-based platform for creating, managing and publishing metadata about resources related to biodiversity and ecosystem domain. Mainly built on the Ecological Metadata Language 2.2.0, ISO 19139 and European Open Science Cloud standards, it guarantees records are Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR). In doing so, it enables structured and standardised information to be openly available, promoting reuse, sharing, and integration by research communities, policymakers, and other stakeholders.
The Catalogue has already been adopted in several European projects and research initiatives, acting as a single access point for the discovery and access of tailored digital resources, increasing their visibility and findability.
Contact(s)
- administrative: lucia.vaira@lifewatch.eu
- support: service.centre@lifewatch.eu
Content type(s)
Keyword(s)
- DOIs
- EOSC
- Ecological Metadata Language
- FAIR
- ISO19139
- JSON
- JSON-LD
- benthos
- biodiversity
- biogeography
- climate change
- data management
- dataset
- discoverability
- ecosystem
- environmental monitoring
- functional traits
- habitat mapping
- interoperability
- metagenomics
- modelling
- occurrence
- research site
- satellite
- schema.org
- semantics
- service
- taxonomy
- training
- virtual research environment
- workflow
Repository size
1885 datasets
Repository type(s)
- multidisciplinary
Mission statement for designated community
Research data repository language(s)
- English
Data and/or service provider
- dataProvider
- serviceProvider
Dates
Started
2020
Institutions (1)
Country
Type(s) of responsibility
- general
- funding
- technical
Type of institution
non-profit
Start date of responsibility
2020
Policies (3)
Database access
Type of access to research data repository
open
Database licenses (1)
Database license
Data access (1)
Type of access to data
open
Data licenses (1)
Data license
Data upload (1)
Type of data upload
restricted
Data upload restriction type(s)
- registration
Data upload license (1)
Data upload license name
Persistent identifier system(s)
- DOI
Name of the repository software
- other
Author identifier system(s)
- ORCID
Quality measure(s)
Metric(s)
- Usage statistics
Application programming interfaces (1)
Type
REST
Url
Documentation
Metadata standards (7)
Metadata standard
Metadata standard
Metadata standard
Metadata standard
Metadata standard
Metadata standard
Metadata standard
Remarks
Remarks
It allows users to manage metadata related to six kinds of resources:
1) Datasets, a subset of EML 2.2.0 standard (77 metadata attributes)
2) Research Site, a customised ISO19139 standard (20 metadata attributes)
3) Services, a customised ISO19139 standard (34 metadata attributes)
4) Virtual Research Environments, a customised ISO19139 standard (24 metadata attributes)
5) Workflows, a customised ISO19139 standard (24 metadata attributes)
6)Training Resources, the EOSC training profile (21 metadata attributes)
Main features:
- user-friendly editor with functions to easily guide users in creating metadata records (copy to function, prefill utility, validators, etc.);
- collaborative space among users within dedicated groups;
- direct connection with thesauri and controlled vocabularies (EcoPortal connection);
- editorial workflow for validation/publication that involves a panel of experts reviewing and integrating the digital resources to have high-quality documented records to support their meaningful interpretation;
- FAIRness assessment;
- DOI assignment (upon validation and verification);
- weekly check on URLs validity and resolvability;
- interoperability and harmonization among Research Infrastructures and other sources (APIs, multiple format download/expose, harvesting mechanisms, tailored XSL transformations, etc.);
- simple/advanced/map-based search to narrow results and facilitate discovery;
- GUI-based approach to create new metadata profiles with a lot of possibilities of
configuration;
- metrics and statistics about the usage (e.g., views, downloads, trends, etc.)
- EOSC (European Open Science Cloud) compliance and federation
Entry date
2026-07-09
Last update
2026-07-09
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