Cross-referenced ecosystem data
Output 4
The project has established a reproducible framework for ecosystem cross-referencing based on the Global Ecosystem Typology controlled vocabulary.
Workflow repositories use persistent identifiers associated with ecosystem concepts and incorporate standardised membership tables prepared by domain experts to document relationships between source classifications and target ecosystem units.
The approach has been implemented through the ecoSynthesis software framework and associated workflow repositories, providing transparent links between source datasets, cross-reference tables and analytical outputs.
Repository-level FAIR checks are being implemented using automated GitHub-based tooling, while publication and long-term preservation through Zenodo are underway.
The cross-referencing methods and associated code are publicly available and reproducible, enabling researchers to understand, evaluate and reuse classification translations across ecosystem assessments.
Although formal ontology representations are still under development and will not be fully implemented during this project, the current approach delivers machine-readable, version-controlled and reusable ecosystem mapping workflows.
This substantially improves transparency and reproducibility compared with traditional spreadsheet-based crosswalks and creates a foundation for future semantic interoperability and provenance tracking.