Roadmap

This is an outline of plans the core FAIRDOM-SEEK development team will be working on in the near future.

It is an overview of the main priorities, and milestones. FAIRDOM-SEEK is developed following an Agile development process, meaning some of the features and timing may change - however, these items are very high in our priorities.

They are expected to be added to FAIRDOM-SEEK in roughly the order they are presented here.

Feature Milestone date
Extended integration with the Norwegian e-Infrastructure for Life Sciences (NeLS) system Q1 2025
Rails 7 and Ruby 3.2 upgrades Q1 2025
Ability to Merge accounts Q2 2025
UI Improvements to the Admin area Q2 2025
Research Organisation Registry (ROR) integration for institutions Q2 2025
JERM RO-Crate profile and support for snapshots, export and import Q2 2025
RO-Crate profile to support Collections Q2 2025
Enhanced ISA-JSON export (via DataHub) supporting brokering tools to submit to repositories Q2 2025
Harmonize and tidy up the submission forms, and remove the DataFile upload wizard to improve consistency Q2 2025
Visible history log for Sample changes Q2 2025
Improving search to support more advanced queries Q2 2025
ISA RO-Crate import and export support for compliant ISA-JSON Q3 2025


Please also see the Workflow Hub Roadmap, which is being built on and in conjunction with FAIRDOM-SEEK.


Completed

These are completed Roadmap features, and includes the version of SEEK the feature was included in.

You can find more details about each release in our Change Logs

Feature SEEK version
Easier mechanism for administrators to define and manage Extended Metadata 1.16.0
Sharing permissions for Sample Types 1.16.0
Allow Editing of Sample Types that have associated Samples 1.16.0
Improving the configurations for Search Indexing and Query parsing 1.16.0
Provide a Sitemap XML 1.15.0
License improvements, using SPDX 1.15.0
Improve navigation between ISA-JSON compliant single page and default view 1.15.0
Visualise study and assay design in default view 1.15.0
Extended Metadata write API extensions 1.15.0
Improve usability of single page view 1.15.0
Upgrade to Ruby 3.1 1.14.0
Backend storage changes with better versioning support 1.13.0
Better support for GitHub 1.13.0
Search configuration improvements, with UI improvements for Search filtering 1.13.0
Collections - grouping assets together under a topic or theme 1.12.0
A new customizable front page 1.12.0
Improvements to defining authors and creators, and their order 1.12.0
Explicit ordering of items within ISA 1.12.0
Sample and Sample Type API 1.11.2
Generic Custom Metadata fields 1.11.0
Extended Studies with extended metadata, supporting MIAPPE 1.11.0
Ontology based metadata attributes, for samples and custom metadata 1.11.0
Smoother process for creating and joining Projects, for admins to handle the request 1.11.0
Markdown formatting for descriptions 1.11.0
Exploring CSV & TSV (as if Excel) 1.11.0
Bulk Changing Sharing Permissions 1.11.0
Metadata search and querying 1.10.0
Bioschemas.org support 1.9.1
Rails 5.2 upgrade 1.9
Project dashboard, showing details and graphs for projects 1.8
Further integration with openBIS, with improved metadata mappings 1.8
Programme wide sharing permissions 1.7
ISA graph improvements 1.7
JSON Write API (Application Programming Interface) 1.6
Improved JERM templates and auto-extraction 1.6
JSON Read API (Application Programming Interface) 1.5
JERM 2 Ontology and RDF updates 1.5
Rails 4 upgrade 1.4
Integration with openBIS 1.3
Improved Samples/Treatments/SOP handling 1.2
Docker and Docker Compose support 1.2
Licensing of Assets 1.1
Research Object Snapshots of Assays and Studies 1.1
Self management of projects and programmes 1.0
Self management of organisms 1.0
Improved registration workflow 1.0
Support for Research Objects 1.0
DOI’s for Investigation snapshots for citation 1.0
New user-interface based on Bootstrap 0.23