Metadata Made Easy: Develop and Use Domain-Specific Metadata Schemes by following the dmdScheme approach.

ABSTRACT: Metadata plays an essential role in the long-term preservation, reuse, and interoperability of data. Nevertheless, creating useful metadata can be sufficiently difficult and weakly enough incentivized that many datasets may be accompanied by little or no metadata. One key challenge is, therefore, how to make metadata creation easier and more valuable. We present a solution that involves creating domain-specific metadata schemes that are as complex as necessary and as simple as possible. These goals are achieved by co-development between a metadata expert and the researchers (i.e., the data creators). The final product is a bespoke metadata scheme into which researchers can enter information (and validate it) via the simplest of interfaces: a web browser application and a spreadsheet.We pro

SUBMITTER: Krug RM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8293710 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature