1. Joint Metadata Session Alex Ball, Keith Jeffery, Rebecca Koskela
April 4, 2019
Breakout 8:
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2. Joint Session Attendance & Notes
Shared Notes:
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Agenda
Welcome, Introductions, and Review Objectives of the Meeting – Keith Jeffery
Metadata Standards Catalog WG Update – Alex Ball
Update on Metadata Element Set – Keith Jeffery
Perspectives from other Groups: - Rebecca Koskela
RDA / TDWG Metadata Standards for attribution of physical and digital collections stewardship WG - Anne Thessen
Data Discovery Paradigms IG – Mingfang Wu
Vocabulary methods and the topic dimension of metadata – Charles Vardeman
GO FAIR- Erik Schultes
Chemistry Research Data IG – Ian Bruno
Group Discussion and Identification of cross-group liaisons – Rebecca Koskela
Future of Data in Context IG – Rebecca Koskela
Wrap-up – Keith Jeffery
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4. Metadata Standards Catalog WG Update
Alex Ball University of Bath
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5. Metadata Standards Catalog WG
Active phase: Jan 2016 – June 2017
Prototype hosted by DCC since Dec 2017
New official instance:
Explore the API:
Officially transitioning to Maintenance Group: managing the maintenance activities and supporting the adopters of the original Recommendation.
Long-term goal: enable research into, comparison of, conversion between metadata standards.
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6. Update on Metadata Element Set
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7. Metadata Element Set - and URL of ‘unpacking’ (1)
Unique Identifier (for later use including citation) {
Location (URL) {
Description {
Keywords (terms) {
Temporal coordinates {
Spatial coordinates {
Originator (organisation(s) / person(s)) {
Project {

8. Metadata Element Set - and URL of ‘unpacking’ (2)
Facility / equipment {
Quality {
Availability (licence, persistence) {
Provenance {
Citations {
Related publications (white or grey) {
Related software {
Schema {
Medium / format {

9. Overall Remarks Still lacking detail despite a lot of work
More work to do
Some characteristics emerging:
Relationships between and within elements
Need for classification on many elements
For properties of the entity (e.g. medium)
For roles in relationships of the entity with others e.g. dataset <-> person ‘owner’
Please comment on the google docs with URLs on previous slides

10. Perspectives from other Groups
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Group Discussion
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12. Future of: Data in Context IG
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Possibilities
New chair to invigorate group
Hibernate group
Terminate group ?
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Metadata Resources
Metadata Elements:
DCC Disciplinary Metadata Standards:
DCC Metadata Tools:
DCC Metadata Profiles and Extensions:
Metadata Standards Directory Updates:
Metadata Catalog prototype:
Metadata Catalog Documentation:
standards-catalog/1.0.0
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