1. 1 Metadata Data Foundation and Terminology RDA-P5 San Diego - Keith Jeffery

2. 2 The Metadata WGs / IGs MIG: Metadata Interest Group MSDWG: Metadata Standards Directory Working Group (until 2015-03)  MSCWG DICIG: Data In Context Interest Group RDPIG: Research Data Provenance Interest Group ?

3. 3  The only difference between metadata and data is mode of use  Metadata is not just for data, it is also for users, software services, computing resources  Metadata is not just for description and discovery; it is also for contextualisation (relevance, quality, restrictions (rights, costs)) and for coupling users, software and computing resources to data (to provide a VRE)  Metadata must be machine-understandable as well as human understandable for autonomicity (formalism)  Management (meta)data is also relevant (research proposal, funding, project information, research outputs, outcomes, impact…) Metadata Principles

4. 4  Formal syntax  Structure  Respecting referential and functional integrity  With constraints to ensure quality  Declared semantics  Terms in ontological structure  Multilingual  Multiple ontologies (sets of terms and their relationships)  Crosswalks between ontologies So we need metadata that has

5. 5  Use Cases  With metadata elements used/required  Metadata Standards Directory towards Catalog  With metadata elements  Towards Recommended Metadata Packages for Purposes  Commonality  ‘packages’  Validation by RDA groups  RDA recommendations Metadata Plan

6. 6 Open Data: Relationships not Elements  Unique Identifier (for later use including citation)  Location (URL)  Description  Keywords (terms)  Temporal coordinates  Geospatial coordinates  Originator (organisation(s) / person(s))  Project  Facility / equipment  Quality  Availability (licence, persistence)  Provenance  Citations  Related publications (white or grey)  Related software  Schema  Medium / format ©Keith G Jeffery et alCRIS14 Rome May 2014 6

7. 7 Open Data: Purposing the elements  Unique Identifier (for later use including citation)  Location (URL)  Description  Keywords (terms)  Temporal coordinates  Geospatial coordinates  Originator (organisation(s) / person(s))  Project  Facility / equipment  Quality  Availability (licence, persistence)  Provenance  Citations  Related publications (white or grey)  Related software  Schema  Medium / format ©Keith G Jeffery et alCRIS14 Rome May 2014 7 discovery context detailed

8. 8 Metadata: one classification  Description  Location (navigation)  Contextualisation  Preservation  Provenance  Schema  Discovery  Context  Detail  Re-use  Interoperation ©Keith G Jeffery et alCRIS14 Rome May 2014 8 PURPOSE PROCESS REQUIREMENTS

9. 9 Complete ICT environment for research The Broader Picture: Virtualisation of e-Research through Metadata Complete cohort of researchers, research managers, innovators, media Processing Model User Model Data Model Resource Model interaction with data, processing, persons providing what the user requires representing research representing ICT We are talking about this ©Keith G Jeffery et alCRIS14 Rome May 2014 9 Based on engage Vision

10. 10  Complete Use Case Template for your use cases  Document in MSDWG Directory any metadata standards used  Discuss metadata requirements or experiences with the Metadata Groups Please