1. Co-Chairs: Keith Jeffery, Rebecca Koskela, Alex Ball
Research Data Alliance 10th WG/IG Collaboration Meeting: Metadata Interest Group 9 January 2019
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Purpose of Metadata IG
Focus on all aspects of metadata for research data including
data discovery
contextualization
validation
analytical processing
interoperation
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Accomplishments
Metadata Principles
Metadata Standards Directory WG
Collection of use cases
Metadata Standards Catalog
List of elements
and-their-use.html
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4. Issues, challenges, problems
Getting started
Keeping up with all the other groups looking at metadata
Keeping interest between plenaries
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5. Coordination with other WG/IGs
Joint sessions
Responding when other groups reach out
Metadata a component of many groups
Types, Terminology, PIDs: formal structures in metadata
Policy: key-value pairs; relationships carried by metadata
Domain: many attributes, specific, some commonality, need for interoperation
Repositories: quality assured by metadata
Brokering: metadata (and especially good quality metadata) makes brokering feasible
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6. Fit with the RDA mission
The RDA Vision: Researchers and innovators openly share data across technologies, disciplines, and countries to address the grand challenges of society.
The RDA Mission: RDA builds the social and technical bridges that enable open sharing and re- use of data.
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