DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16944981
title: MLentory Knowledge Graph for AI models

description: MLentory (https://mlentory.zbmed.de/) is centered around information on ML models, how to harmonize that data, and how to make it available and searchable on an FDO (FAIR Digital Object) registry. Our goal is to build a system that extracts ML (Machine Learning) model information from different platforms, normalizes that data in a common format, stores it, and shares it in a FDO registry to facilitate Information Retrieval and comparison/recommendation systems. 

Currently MLentory aggregates data from Hugging Face, OpenML [1], and AI4Life/Bioimage Model Zoo and provides it as an RDF Knowledge Graph using schema.org [2], Croissant ML [3], CodeMeta [4], and FAIR4ML [5]. MLentory registry on the web uses W3ID identifiers and provides machine-actionable data in the form of Webby FDOs [6], using RO-Crate [7] and FAIR Signposting [8].

This MLentory dataset correspondes to a pre-beta release including the following files:



Turtle sample data for models from AI4Life, OpenML, and Hugging Face - mlentory_sample_data_AI4Life_OpenML_HF.turtle

JSON-LD sample data for models from AI4Life, OpenML, and Hugging Face - mlentory_sample_data_AI4Life_OpenML_HF.json-ld

Preliminary data for models from Hugging Face - 100K_HF.tar.gz


As a pre-beta release, this data may need improvements and may not be complete (i.e., it does not contain all the models from all the aggregated platforms). With this early release, we aim at providing a sneek-preview of what will become periodical releases of MLentory. Feedback can be provided as GitHub issues at https://github.com/zbmed-semtec/mlentory-etl-pipeline.

A presentation about MLentory is available [9], as well as its Technical Design Document [10].

Funding

MLentory FDO registry is part of the NFDI4DataScience consortium, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG —German Research Foundation) under the grant number 460234259.

This work was supported by the de.NBI Cloud within the German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure (de.NBI) and ELIXIR-DE (Forschungszentrum Jülich and W-de.NBI-001, W-de.NBI-004, W-de.NBI-008, W-de.NBI-010, W-de.NBI-013, W-de.NBI-014, W-de.NBI-016, W-de.NBI-022).

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