Joint Metadata Session Alex Ball, Keith Jeffery, Rebecca Koskela April 4, 2019 Breakout 8: 1100 - 1230 29/06/2019 www.rd-alliance.org - @resdatall

Joint Session Attendance & Notes Shared Notes: http://bit.ly/2Utwzuv 29/06/2019 www.rd-alliance.org - @resdatall

www.rd-alliance.org - @resdatall 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 29/06/2019 www.rd-alliance.org - @resdatall

Metadata Standards Catalog WG Update Alex Ball University of Bath 29/06/2019 rd-alliance.org 4

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. 29/06/2019 rd-alliance.org 5

Update on Metadata Element Set 29/06/2019 www.rd-alliance.org - @resdatall

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}

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}

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

Perspectives from other Groups 29/06/2019 www.rd-alliance.org - @resdatall

www.rd-alliance.org - @resdatall Group Discussion 29/06/2019 www.rd-alliance.org - @resdatall

Future of: Data in Context IG 29/06/2019 www.rd-alliance.org - @resdatall

www.rd-alliance.org - @resdatall Possibilities New chair to invigorate group Hibernate group Terminate group ? 29/06/2019 www.rd-alliance.org - @resdatall

www.rd-alliance.org - @resdatall 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 29/06/2019 www.rd-alliance.org - @resdatall