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 |