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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