CoreMeta4Cat is a community-driven metadata initiative under NFDI4Cat defining minimum reporting requirements for catalysis research data.
Arjun Neyyathala, Franziska Flecken (fmr.), Hendrik Borgelt, Mohammad Khatamirad
CoreMeta4Cat is a community-driven metadata initiative under NFDI4Cat defining minimum reporting requirements for catalysis research data.
Arjun Neyyathala, Franziska Flecken (fmr.), Hendrik Borgelt, Mohammad Khatamirad
This activity develops domain-specific metadata standards for catalysis research. Metadata, understood as structured contextual information describing experimental and computational data, is defined to specify minimum reporting requirements for catalysis studies. Based on the controlled vocabulary Voc4Cat, the framework identifies and standardizes the most relevant catalysis-specific metadata fields, enabling machine-readable, interoperable, and FAIR-compliant data documentation.
Catalysis data are commonly accompanied by incomplete or weakly structured metadata, limiting reproducibility, interoperability, and reuse. The absence of clearly defined minimum information guidelines leads to heterogeneous reporting practices and ambiguous terminology, which hinder metadata-based data discovery, validation, and automated processing. A technically consistent metadata model, grounded in controlled vocabularies and aligned with FAIR principles, is required to ensure unambiguous semantic representation and effective reuse of catalysis data across digital infrastructures.
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