ESIP community members are actively working throughout the data life cycle from data management planning to collection and creation to archiving, discovery, and data reuse. They use many metadata dialects to address multiple data use cases and are exposed to metadata requirements and recommendations from many organizations, disciplines, and communities. Using these recommendations to guide metadata improvement requires being able to evaluate existing metadata collections with respect to these recommendations. These evaluations can take many forms and serve many purposes.
We will discuss the role of repositories in these evaluations beginning with insights from three repositories:
- DataOne/Arctic Data Center (Matt Jones)
- EDI/LTER (Margaret O’Brien)
- Dryad (Ted Habermann & Daniella Lowenberg)
with a focus on three questions:
- How can repositories/networks use metadata evaluation in curation of data and metadata
- What supporting tools and infrastructure exist at repositories for evaluating metadata
- How can metadata evaluation help motivate and measure evolution of metadata and dialects.
We plan to have plenty of time for discussion after these presentations.
View the Recording on YouTube
Presenter: Margaret O'Brien
Talk Title: Environmental Data Initiative/Long Term Ecological Research Network EML Congruence Checker
Slides: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.9162197Presenter: Daniella Lowenberg
Talk Title: Metadata and Dialect Evolution - Affiliations in the Dryad Data Repository
Slides: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.9252824Session recording here.
