Metadata Standards for Data Joan Starr California Digital Library January, Thoughts about

Our roadmap Requirements Some offerings Some gaps Where to keep looking By Roo Reynolds

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Requirements Citation Reuse for dataset description Photos courtesy of David Mellis, University of California; Dave Rogers; ThelmageGroup

EZID: long-term identifiers made easy

Small required set = citation elements Optional descriptive set: – extendable lists – can refer to other standards, schemes – domain-neutral – rich ability to describe relationships to other digital objects Metadata Search (MDS) is full-text indexed DataCite Metadata V. 2.2

1.Identifier (with type attribute) 2.Creator (with name identifier attributes) 3.Title (with optional type attribute) 4.Publisher 5.PublicationYear DataCite Metadata V. 2.2 Required properties

What’s missing? By zen

Where to go for more information EZID EZID application: EZID website: UC3 website: DataCite DataCite Home: DataCite Metadata Schema: DataCite Metadata Search: And contact Joan Starr at

Questions? by Horia Varlan Joan