1. 1 RDA and Metadata Peter Fox (my view) Metadata session 20150925

2. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 7 Solution dimension Beneficiary dimension Data Provider Data Consumer Technical Social Q1 Q2Q3 Q4 4141 4141 4040 4040 2 2 1212 1212 8 8 1 1 3 3 5 5 4 4 9 9 6 6 1010 1010 7 7 11 4343 4343 4242 4242 4545 4545 4747 4747 4848 4848 4646 4646 44 5151 5151 5050 5050 4949 4949 33 3939 3939 3535 3535 3434 3434 3030 3030 3232 3232 2929 2929 2828 2828 3636 3636 3131 3131 3838 3838 3737 3737 1717 1717 1313 1313 1414 1414 22 1818 1818 2121 2121 2323 2323 1919 1919 2424 2424 2020 2020 2626 2626 2525 2525 1515 1515 2727 2727 1616 1616 FG BP SS BA PW BP SC JS PF AT PF RS FG JS SS CP AT XX AT XX = unassigned From ~ P5

8. 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. 9  Relation between metadata and vocabularies (and services) and, and …  Metadata SWAT team(s)?  Metadata IG – Roadmap? Portfolio?  About RDA RDA and metadata (needs?)