Technical Values¶
BTAA-GIN 2025¶
1. Resilience & Growth¶
1.1. Durable (Meta)data beyond Ephemeral Applications¶
We ensure metadata and data remain accessible and usable for future generations, even as tools and platforms evolve.
1.2. Modularity and Scalability¶
We create flexible systems that grow with changing needs.
1.3. Adoption of Sustainable Technologies¶
We embrace modern, industry-standard tools to ensure our systems remain reliable, maintainable, and adaptable.
2. User and Community Focus¶
2.1. Community-Centered Design¶
We design tools based on the needs of researchers, libraries, data providers, and users.
2.2. Transparency and Openness¶
We commit to open standards, open-source tools, and transparent workflows.
2.3. Data Integrity¶
We prioritize trust by documenting the resource provenance, promoting data citations, and following established FAIR metadata principles.
3. Standards & Interoperability¶
3.1. Commitment to Standards¶
We align with widely adopted standards to ensure our tools and metadata are compatible, easy to adopt, and scalable.
3.2. Machine-Readable Metadata¶
We prioritize metadata structured within a machine-readable catalog format over static document-centered files.