ELIXIR biovalidator for semantic validation of life science metadata

A summary: To advance biomedical research, increasingly large amounts of complex data need to be discovered and integrated. This requires syntactic and semantic validation to ensure shared understanding of relevant entities. This article describes the ELIXIR biovalidator, which extends the syntactic validation of the widely used AJV library with ontology-based validation of JSON documents.

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To advance biomedical research, it is necessary to validate and integrate complex data, ensuring shared understanding of relevant entities. The ELIXIR biovalidator extends syntactic validation with ontology-based validation of JSON documents.