www.trr379.de

This is the main website of the TRR379.

This website is not just a public-facing view on the consortium. It is specifically built to be the core component of the metadata concept of TRR379. It provides a collection of canonical definitions of entities essential for the function of TRR379. Such entities include

  • projects of the TRR
  • contributors to the TRR
  • publication from the TRR membership
  • site of the consortium
  • …

Semantics

Any such entity has a dedicated page on the website, with a stable URL that serves as a URI for that entity. As such, these URLs can be used in any TRR379-related metadata to declare relationships to TRR379 entities, for example, the authorship of a publication, the origin project of a data release, etc.

The website is built with the static site generator Hugo. It capitalized on its taxonomy feature. Any page on the site is built from a metadata record. For Hugo, this metadata is presented in the form of a page’s front matter. However, these metadata may themselves be generated from the result of a database query.

Here is an example record for TRR379 spokesperson Ute Habel:

title: Ute Habel
projects:
- a02
- a04
- q01
- q04
sites:
- Aachen
- Juelich
roles:
- pi
- spokesperson
layout: contributor
params:
  orcid:  0000-0003-0703-7722
  name-title: Prof. Dr. rer. soc.
  affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Faculty of Medicine, RWTH Aachen University
  sortkey: "Habel, Ute"

<additional content on the page's subject>

From this information, the page that identifies and describes Ute Habel as a spokesperson is generated. It also links and references her record on the respective pages for projects, sites, and roles she is associated with. Consequently, the URL https://www.trr379.de/contributors/ute-habel/ can serve as a URI for Ute Habel within the TRR379 metadata. Moreover, ute-habel is a unique identifier for her as a contributor to TRR379.

While other special-purpose identification systems exist (e.g., https://orcid.org for academics), this approach is automatically applicable to any concept and entity relevant to TRR379. Including roles, data acquisition methods, instruments, etc. The domain root trr379.de represents a unique namespace to define and reference any required entities. This enables a timely and unencumbered development of a metadata concept for TRR379, without hindering alignment with and mapping to more global efforts and initiatives.

Look

Structured metadata is rendered to an HTML website with Hugo using a template. This approach separates the information from its presentation.

The look of the website can be altered by adjusting the template, or switching to a different template entirely. This requires familiarity with Hugo and its templating mechanism.

At present, the congo template is used.