{"id":201,"date":"2021-01-23T20:19:51","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T20:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/81.169.168.47\/?page_id=3"},"modified":"2026-05-07T11:53:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T10:53:57","slug":"open-science","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/semrepo.org\/index.php\/open-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethics &amp; Sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Open Science &amp; Compliance Overview<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>FAIR Principles \u2022 CC0 Data \u2022 MIT Licensed Code \u2022 Open Access \u2022 Versioned Releases \u2022 RDF\/OWL Standards \u2022 SPARQL Endpoint \u2022 Reproducible Pipeline<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">FAIR Principles<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>SemRepo adheres to the FAIR data principles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Findable<\/strong> \u2013 All releases are published with persistent identifiers and are indexed via Zenodo, GitHub, and the project website.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Accessible<\/strong> \u2013 Data is openly available via RDF dumps and a public SPARQL endpoint without authentication barriers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Interoperable<\/strong> \u2013 The dataset uses standardized semantic web formats (RDF, OWL, SPARQL, VoID) and links to external scholarly knowledge graphs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Reusable<\/strong> \u2013 Data and pipelines are openly licensed and versioned to support reuse, replication, and extension.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Accessibility &amp; Interoperability<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>SemRepo provides multiple access methods to support diverse use cases:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>RDF data dumps for full dataset download<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SPARQL endpoint for structured querying<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Standardized ontologies (RDF\/OWL) for semantic consistency<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Interlinking with external scholarly knowledge graphs for integration into broader ecosystems<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These design choices ensure compatibility with both academic and industrial applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reusability &amp; Versioning<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>SemRepo follows a versioned release strategy with periodic updates (approximately twice per year, depending on upstream data availability).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each release includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A complete dataset snapshot<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Metadata and provenance information<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fully reproducible construction pipelines<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This ensures that results can be independently verified and extended by the research community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Licensing<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>SemRepo is released under open licenses to maximize reuse and transparency:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Data:<\/strong> Creative Commons CC0 (public domain dedication)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Code &amp; Pipeline:<\/strong> MIT License<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This licensing model allows unrestricted reuse of both data and software, including commercial and academic applications, with minimal constraints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ethical Considerations<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>SemRepo is built exclusively from publicly available software repositories and scholarly metadata sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, we acknowledge that it inherits structural biases and coverage limitations from upstream sources such as GitHub and linked scholarly knowledge graphs, including uneven representation across languages, regions, and research communities. 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