1 RDA and Metadata Peter Fox (my view) Metadata session

2 About  Remember what I said at P1, opening session? “… to decommission the term metadata, and then realize that we only used it because we were not specific enough about about” ;-)  I have a folder with all the “hate mail” I received  Now RDA has 4 metadata groups, and 4 sessions at P6 (depending on how you count)

3 About and Meaning  About = things that matter  Context  Meaning -> semantics  Relations and types  More than that  Syntax (structure/form)  Semantics (meaning)  Pragmatics (use)

4 Thoughts from a use perspective **  Go ahead, create all the metadata you want, we’ll “materialize” some of it into triples based on semantics for use!  Late semantic binding!  Go ahead, create all the schema and encodings you want but remember – semantics now lives in an open-world and It is linked.  You are not the only source of metadata. Not all metadata is formalized. Link over map.  Semantics make metadata useful but we do not need all of your metadata for use 4

5 Provenance – metadata de jour  Origin or source from which something comes, intention for use, who/what generated for, manner of manufacture, history of subsequent owners, sense of place and time of manufacture, production or discovery, documented in detail sufficient to allow reproducibility  Provenance: metadata in a given context! Swallow that.  Knowledge provenance; meaning and relations in multiple contexts!

6  Group clustering – typology  Social / Technical – Producers / Consumers  Tagging –  Reality: use is constrained by the application (e.g. Drupal for RDA website) RDA and metadata (needs?)

7 Solution dimension Beneficiary dimension Data Provider Data Consumer Technical Social Q1 Q2Q3 Q FG BP SS BA PW BP SC JS PF AT PF RS FG JS SS CP AT XX AT XX = unassigned From ~ P5

8 Domain Science - focused  Toxicogenomics Interoperability  Structural Biology  Biodiversity Data Integration  Metabolomics  Agricultural Data Interoperability  Digital History and Ethnography  Marine Data Harmonization  Materials Data Management  Photon & Neutron science  ELIXIR Bridging Force  Geospatial  Defining Urban Data Exchange for Science Data Stewardship - focused  Domain Repositories  Long-tail of Research Data  Certification of Digital Repositories  Research Data Provenance  Publishing Data  Publishing data cost recovery  Preservation e-infrastructure  Ethics and social aspects  Libraries for research data Base Infrastructure - focused  Metadata IG  Big Data Analytics IG  Data Brokering IG  PID  Federated identity management  Service management  Data Fabric Reference and Sharing - focused  Legal Interoperability IG  Reproductibility Community Needs - focused  Community Capability Model  Engagement  Data for Development  Clouds in Developing Countries  Education and training on data handling From P4

9  Relation between metadata and vocabularies (and services) and, and …  Metadata SWAT team(s)?  Metadata IG – Roadmap? Portfolio?  About RDA RDA and metadata (needs?)