Joint Metadata Session Update and Perspectives
In this session, there are updates on Metadata Standards Catalog Working Group, Metadata Element Set, and valuable perspectives from various groups regarding metadata standards and data stewardship. The agenda covers discussions on research data management, vocabulary methods, and the future of data in context. Attendees are encouraged to explore the links shared for more details.
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Joint Metadata Session Alex Ball, Keith Jeffery, Rebecca Koskela April 4, 2019 Breakout 8: 1100 - 1230 21/02/2025 www.rd-alliance.org - @resdatall CC BY-SA 4.0
Joint Session Attendance & Notes Attendance: http://bit.ly/2YJUSDN Shared Notes: http://bit.ly/2Utwzuv 21/02/2025 www.rd-alliance.org - @resdatall CC BY-SA 4.0
Agenda Welcome, Introductions, and Review Objectives of the Meeting Keith Jeffery Metadata Standards Catalog WG Update Alex Ball Update on Metadata Element Set Keith Jeffery Perspectives from other Groups: - Rebecca Koskela RDA / TDWG Metadata Standards for attribution of physical and digital collections stewardship WG - Anne Thessen Data Discovery Paradigms IG Mingfang Wu Vocabulary methods and the topic dimension of metadata Charles Vardeman GO FAIR- Erik Schultes Chemistry Research Data IG Ian Bruno Group Discussion and Identification of cross-group liaisons Rebecca Koskela Future of Data in Context IG Rebecca Koskela Wrap-up Keith Jeffery 21/02/2025 www.rd-alliance.org - @resdatall CC BY-SA 4.0
Metadata Standards Catalog WG Update Alex Ball University of Bath 21/02/2025 rd-alliance.org 4 CC BY-SA 4.0
Metadata Standards Catalog WG Active phase: Jan 2016 June 2017 Prototype hosted by DCC since Dec 2017 New official instance: https://rdamsc.bath.ac.uk/ Explore the API: https://tinyurl.com/msc-api-1 Officially transitioning to Maintenance Group: managing the maintenance activities and supporting the adopters of the original Recommendation. Long-term goal: enable research into, comparison of, conversion between metadata standards. 21/02/2025 rd-alliance.org 5 CC BY-SA 4.0
Update on Metadata Element Set 21/02/2025 www.rd-alliance.org - @resdatall CC BY-SA 4.0
Metadata Element Set - and URL of unpacking (1) Unique Identifier (for later use including citation) {http://bit.ly/2ryRr12} Location (URL) {http://bit.ly/2rujALv} Description {http://bit.ly/2ss2CwH} Keywords (terms) {http://bit.ly/2se44QX} Temporal coordinates {http://bit.ly/2sdVKAR} Spatial coordinates {http://bit.ly/2ru6kGt} Originator (organisation(s) / person(s)) {http://bit.ly/2ruFCgZ} Project {http://bit.ly/2rukIid} CC BY-SA 4.0
Metadata Element Set - and URL of unpacking (2) Facility / equipment {http://bit.ly/2sdEj3h} Quality {http://bit.ly/2svs0Cc} Availability (licence, persistence) {http://bit.ly/2t56LEy} Provenance {http://bit.ly/2se59Z1} Citations {http://bit.ly/2se9efQ} Related publications (white or grey) {http://bit.ly/2rjHFR5} Related software {http://bit.ly/2rutPzn} Schema {http://bit.ly/2srMUl3} Medium / format {http://bit.ly/2svtEEe} CC BY-SA 4.0
Overall Remarks Still lacking detail despite a lot of work More work to do Some characteristics emerging: Relationships between and within elements Need for classification on many elements For properties of the entity (e.g. medium) For roles in relationships of the entity with others e.g. dataset <-> person owner Please comment on the google docs with URLs on previous slides CC BY-SA 4.0
Perspectives from other Groups 21/02/2025 www.rd-alliance.org - @resdatall CC BY-SA 4.0
Group Discussion 21/02/2025 www.rd-alliance.org - @resdatall CC BY-SA 4.0
Future of: Data in Context IG 21/02/2025 www.rd-alliance.org - @resdatall CC BY-SA 4.0
Possibilities New chair to invigorate group Hibernate group Terminate group ? 21/02/2025 www.rd-alliance.org - @resdatall CC BY-SA 4.0
Metadata Resources Metadata Elements: https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/metadata-ig.html DCC Disciplinary Metadata Standards: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/metadata-standards DCC Metadata Tools: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/metadata-standards/tools DCC Metadata Profiles and Extensions: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/metadata-standards/extensions Metadata Standards Directory Updates: http://rd-alliance.github.io/metadata-directory/ Metadata Catalog prototype: https://rdamsc.bath.ac.uk/ Metadata Catalog Documentation: https://app.swaggerhub.com/apis-docs/alex-ball/rda-metadata- standards-catalog/1.0.0 21/02/2025 www.rd-alliance.org - @resdatall CC BY-SA 4.0