FAIR-GNSS annual report on activities in all work packages
A short report about the project's activties from March 2021 to March 2022.
March 2022
FAIR-GNSS proposal for GNSS metadata standardisation
We have drafted a proposal for standardized metadata (GNSS-DCAT-AP) to be attached to GNSS RINEX data when they are e.g. downloaded from a GNSS data repository using web services. The proposal and its documentation are publicly available on a GitHub repository.
November 2021
FAIR-GNSS annual meeting
An occasion for an overview on the status of the project. Discussions with the members of the follow-up committee focused on the overall progress and on the work on GNSS data preparation (data inventory, restructuring of the databases, etc.) and the proposals for GNSS metadata.
FAIR-GNSS proposal for GeodesyML
The text of the FAIR-GNSS proposal for GNSS station metadata (extended GeodesyML) is now under discussion with the GeodesyML task force of the IGS infrastructure committee and is publicly available in a GitHub repository of ROB's GNSS team.
October 2021
FAIR-GNSS report on the selection of metadata schemas for GNSS data
A report on the process of selecting metadata standard(s) for GNSS data, containg the proposals for GNSS station metadata (extended GeodesyML) and GNSS RINEX files metadata (extended DCAT-AP).
June 2021
FAIR-GNSS updated DMP and data inventory
As a preliminary step in the process of selecting metadata standard(s) for GNSS data, an inventory of the data hosted in ROB's repositories has been created to structure the data information and identify potential and relevant metadata items.
May 2021
Participation to the EUREF Symposium 2021
Splinter meeting of the EUREF Symposium 2021 on "Towards FAIR GNSS data". Presentations by S. De Bodt - UGent ("Introduction on FAIR Data") and C. Bruyninx - ROB ("Towards FAIR GNSS data").March 2021
First project deliverables
First report on FAIR guidelines and assessment approaches, and set up of this project websiteDicussion about PIDs for GNSS data
Internal discussions about DOI (granularity) and system handles (e.g. RDA’s WG “PID for instruments”) for GNSS data and meeting with K. Elger, chair of the GGOS WG on DOIs
February 2021
June 2020
FAIR-GNSS project proposal submitted
The FAIR-GNSS project proposal has been submitted as a bottom-up proposal for BELSPO BRAIN-be 2.0 Pillar 2 "Heritage Science" call.
May 2020
Thinking about FAIR-GNSS data...
As funders and research policy makers are progressively asking to turn or make data FAIR, there are specific challenges when dealing with GNSS data. At the EGU General Assembly 2020, our team at ROB discussed about GNSS station metadata revisited in response to evolving needs and challenges and open problems when applying FAIR principles to GNSS data