Project Milestones

Our roadmap for implementing the Semantic Metadata Service for our research partners.

Milestone 1: Specification & Mapping

Croissant Profile development, definition of metadata profiles, and selecting controlled vocabularies (SKOS). Architecture design for multilingual schemas and deployment of AI-powered pipelines.

Deliverable: Semantic Mapping Document & Infrastructure Readiness Report

Milestone 2: Operational Core

Building the Croissant Ingestion Engine to parse JSON-LD and transform it into a knowledge graph. Automating concept linking and deploying an MVP Triplestore with API access.

Deliverable: Functional Core Service; API access; MCP server compatibility

Milestone 3: Enhancements

Cross-Domain Linking using CDIF principles and refinement of the Multilingual API layer. Implementing SHACL shapes to validate FAIR requirements.

Deliverable: Interoperable Service Beta; Validation Results

Milestone 4: Open Release

Final code release under MIT/Apache 2.0. Comprehensive Semantic Documentation and an Ontology Guide for the Semantic Web representation.

Deliverable: Open-Source Repository; User & Ontology Documentation

Streamlined Delivery

A comprehensive focus on future-proof semantic interoperability for climate and biodiversity research.