1. 1 Metadata Elements and Domain Groups - Keith G Jeffery

2. 2 …. and now for something completely different….

3. 3  Since RDA P2:  Recommendations (standards)  Software services  So the community can  Build, maintain, develop repositories to provide researcher access  Interoperate repositories in a domain  Interoperate across domains  A necessary recommendation is on metadata  Supported by software services RDA Purpose: a personal view

4. 4  Since RDA P2:  Recommendations (standards)  Software services  So the community can  Build, maintain, develop better repositories to provide researcher access  Interoperate repositories in a domain  Interoperate across domains  A necessary recommendation is on metadata  Supported by software services RDA Purpose: a personal view

5. 5  Domain researchers and ICT support/development people asking RDA Metadata Groups for recommendations on metadata  For use within their individual repository  For (interoperability) use within a domain  For interoperability use across domains  One example is ICOS  Carbon cycle and greenhouse gases Requirement

6. 6  Discovery  Finding data, software, people (users), resources (computers, storage, instrumentation);  Relevance to purpose (initial assessment)  Contextualisation  Appropriate for the purpose (assessment)  Quality (syntax, semantics – including multilinguality)  Recording activity (who did what, when, where to which)  Connecting data to Software / Environment / resources  Schema level (syntax, semantics – including multiliguality) Metadata Used for

7. 7 Metadata / other groups Plan Involves not only metadata groups but all RDA Evolved since P2 Washington DC  Use cases into repository (DICIG)  Standards into MSDWG directory/catalog (MSDWG  MSCWG)  Analyse for commonalities and differences (MIG)  Propose canonical metadata ‘packages’ for ‘purposes’ (MIG)  Validation of ‘packages’ (domain groups)  Provision of convertors  This is a resource problem!  Move to standardisation of ‘packages’ (RDA)

8. 8 Open Data: Purposing the elements  Unique Identifier (for later use including citation)  Location (URL)  Description  Keywords (terms)  Temporal coordinates  Spatial 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 8 discovery context detailed

9. 9  Many (most) of the elements are not simple single valued  e.g. Originator (organisation(s) / person(s))  Many are multilingual  So we need structured metadata (not flat metadata)  Base entities (exist in real world)  Linking entities (relationships between base entities) with role and temporal duration But Note

10. 10 Product (dataset) Organisati on PersonProject Publication (document) Facility Equipme nt Service Spatial coordinate s Temporal coordinate s Classificat ion Scheme Classificat ion Term Indicator Measure ment Name/Title Keywords

11. 11 Proposed List of Presenters (not closed!)  Humanities: Bridget Almas  Social Sciences: George Alter  Marine: Bob Arko, Cyndy Chandler, Helen Glaves, Adam Shepherd  Materials: James Warren, Chandler Becker, Ray Plante, Bob Hanisch  Biodiversity: Dimitris Koureas  Astronomy: Francoise Genova, Bob Hanisch  Bioscience: George Alter

12. 12 Open Data: Purposing the elements  Unique Identifier (for later use including citation)  Location (URL)  Description  Keywords (terms)  Temporal coordinates  Spatial 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 12

13. Astronomy Ray Plante, Bob Hanisch, Francoise Genova

14. 14 Astronomy Resource Metadata ElementUsedDesiredStandardComments Unique Identifer Identifier IVOA Rec: IVOA Identifiers Location (URL) AccessURL RM KeywordsSubject RM Temporal coordinates Coverage.Temporal.* ?RMMulti-component value Spatial coordinates Coverage.Spatial.*?RMValue is complex description OriginatorPublisher, Creator, Contributor, Contact (with support for identifiers) Same, with better support for identifiers RM Legend: RM = IVOA Recommendation: Resource Metadata for the Virtual Observatory VOR = IVOA Recommendation: VOResource: an XML Encoding Schema for Resource Metadata ? = Something better is desired

15. 15 ElementUsedDesiredStandar d Comments ProjectPublisher, Title Publisher, Title RM Facility/ equipment Facility, Instrument Facility, Instrument RM QualityValidation Level ?RMApplied to resource metadata record, not underlying data! AvailabilityRights?RM, VORChoice: public, secure, proprietary Provenanc e ?? CitationsSource?RM Related publications Source, ReferenceURL ?RM Related software Could describe services for accessing data ?

16. 16 ElementUsedDesiredStandardComments SchemaCould describe table schemas IVOA Rec: Data & Services Not sure what is meant here Medium/ format Format RMNeed better way to constrain value. Other Notes: IVOA Standards found here: http://www.ivoa.net/Documents http://www.ivoa.net/Documents The IVOA RM standard uses Dublin Core as a basis; consequently, the metadata is assuming a resource-based metadata model Our resource metadata model is not exclusively data-centric: in addition to describing data collections, it is also used to describe organizations, services, registries, standards.

17. Materials James Warren, Chandler Becker, Ray Plante, Bob Hanisch

18. 18 ElementUsedDesiredStandard Unique identifiersometimesYN Location (URL)oftenYN/A DescriptionoftenYN/A KeywordsoftenYN/A Temporal coordsMaybeAs optional fieldunknown Spatial coordsMaybe (redefined?)As optional fieldunknown OriginatoroftenYN ProjectoftenYN Facility / equipmentyesYN QualitysometimesYN Availability (license, persistence) sometimesYN ProvenancesometimesYN CitationsoftenYNone known Related pubsoftenYNone known Related softwareoftenYN SchemasometimesYN Medium / formatsometimesYN (except things like file formats)

19. Social Sciences George Alter

20. 20  Spreadsheet  RDA-DDI elements_SI_v3.xlsx RDA-DDI elements_SI_v3.xlsx

21. Bioscience George Alter

22. 22  Spreadsheet  RDA-bioCADDIE elements.xlsx RDA-bioCADDIE elements.xlsx