1 24 September BREAKOUT :30 1)Review of Metadata Standards Directory (DCC version and GitHub) 2)Introduction of Metadata Standards Catalog 3)Metadata Standards Catalog Timeline and Assignment of Tasks Session objectives are:  Share current status of Metadata Standards Directory  Overview of Metadata Standards Catalog  Create timeline for milestones and assign tasks to achieve those milestones Metadata Standards Catalog WG

2 Metadata Standards Catalog Working Group Alex Ball, Keith Jeffery and Rebecca Koskela

3  History  Vision Agenda

4  MSCWG has been proposed to RDA TAB as a new WG  It springs from the experience of MSDWG History

5  Develop an RDA Metadata Standards Directory listing standards relevant for research data  Comprehensive, collective effort  Easy for anyone to contribute or update  Development supported by use cases  Develop a plan for long-term growth and maintenance of the directory MSDWG Goals

6  Starting point: Digital Curation Centre Disciplinary Metadata  Survey to enhance the directory:  See also C. I. Perez, The RDA’s Metadata Standards Directory: Information gathering (Master’s dissertation, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2013)  Draft Use Cases  Selection of GitHub for updates and additions   DataONE summer internship:  By late 2013, added:  14 new standards, 4 new profiles/extensions, 13 new tools for working with metadata Steps

7  Outreach:  Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP), Summer Meeting 2013 (R. Koskela)  CAMP-4-DATA at DC-2013, Lisbon (26 participants; 15 countries), Paper in Proceedings (Jan. ‘14)  International Digital Curation Conference 2014, San Francisco (A. Ball)  Presentation at COOPEUS Meeting, Brussels, June 2015 (R. Koskela)  Presentation for DC-2015, September 2015 (A. Ball) Activities

8  Plenary 3 (Dublin):  Tool developers  Data custodians  Journal editors, funders  PURLs for standards  Librarians  Plenary 4 (Amsterdam):  Geospatial engineering  Materials science synchrotron data  Humanities and Social Sciences  Cultural heritage Developed Use Cases

9 MSDWG: Delivered Products  Pages are generated from simple easy-to- edit text files.  Maintainers can edit the pages directly.  Anyone can fork the whole directory, make changes on their copy, and submit a pull request.

10  Proposed Metadata Standards Catalogue Working Group (MSCWG)  Develop the Metadata Standards Directory into a Metadata Standards Catalogue…  Allow records to be added, searched and retrieved by API.  Provide representations of records in machine- understandable form.  Develop, with community, recommendations of which standard(s) should be used for which purpose.  Provide information on elements defined by each standard, and the purpose they serve. What’s Next

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12  To have a portal  With end-user interface  And API  To a catalog of metadata standards  Machine actionable as well as human readable  All characterised in one metadata format  able to convert to / from many existing metadata formats  For search/retrieval to find appropriate standards  And use them – in data collection, validation, search, interoperability The Vision

13  A major goal of RDA is sharing of research datasets.  interoperability is required using computer systems to discover, contextualise, select, access, transmit or process datasets.  Interoperability  a user accessing the world through a local / institutional / national portal sees not only local datasets and software but also all relevant datasets and software as if they were local.  Achieved through metadata  Characterising the objects (datasets, software, users, computing resources)  techniques to match and map those descriptions  generation of convertors for the underlying data instances.  Interoperation among many metadata models  preserves the richness of the original schemes  uses techniques to establish relationships between attributes in the different schemes (matching and mapping). MSCWG In Context: Metadata Groups’ Position in RDA