Journal article
A Metadata Best Practice for a Scientific Data Repository
Journal of library metadata, v 9(3-4), pp 194-212
30 Nov 2009
Abstract
Digital data repositories ought to support immediate operational needs and long-term project goals. This paper presents the Dryad repository's metadata best practice balancing of these two needs. The paper reviews background work exploring the meaning of science, characterizing data, and highlighting data curation metadata challenges. The Dryad repository is introduced, and the initiative's metadata best practice and underlying rationales are described. Dryad's metadata approach includes two prongs: one addressing the long-term goal to align with the Semantic Web via a metadata application profile; and another addressing the immediate need to make content available in DSpace via an extensible markup language (XML) schema. The conclusion summarizes limitations and advantages of the two prongs underlying Dryad's metadata effort.
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Details
- Title
- A Metadata Best Practice for a Scientific Data Repository
- Creators
- Jane Greenberg - Metadata Research Center, School of Information and Library Science , University of North Carolina at Chapel HillHollie C White - Metadata Research Center, School of Information and Library Science , University of North Carolina at Chapel HillSarah Carrier - Metadata Research Center, School of Information and Library Science , University of North Carolina at Chapel HillRyan Scherle - National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent)
- Publication Details
- Journal of library metadata, v 9(3-4), pp 194-212
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Group
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Information Science
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-77955115142
- Other Identifier
- 991014878196504721