1. 1 Metadata Standards Directory Working Group…. ++ - NIST WG-IG Meeting, Nov. 13-14, 2014 - Jane Greenberg, Alex Ball, Keith Jeffery, Rebecca Koskela

2. 2 “…develop a collaborative, open directory of metadata standards applicable to scientific data” Stakeholders: Researchers, data managers, data scientists, tool developers, repositories, agencies, societies (RDA’s growing community) Goals and workplan - DCC Disciplinary Directory: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/metadata-standards http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/metadata-standards

3. 3  Metadata Standards Directory implementation  GitHub (Kate Alderete, S. Chen, MRC/UNC/Duke) http://rd-alliance.github.io/metadata-directory/ http://rd-alliance.github.io/metadata-directory/  Use Cases  Policy Development RDA intern, Yuan Ling  Linking MSDWG and Policy WG  Outreach and interaction  DCC, EUDAT, US RDA, IEEE Big Data, intern, iSchool students…  Connection w/MIG, etc. Accomplishments since RDA-3

4. 4  Next slide 1. Welcome, WG Goals 2. Updates since Dublin RDA-3 3. Working session  Use Cases  Policy 4. Open Discussion 5. Action items Agenda Action items RDA-4: Agenda, activity, action items

5. 5 From You: 1.Please send us your use case templates, filled out, and any comments on the template itself. 2.Please look at the directory, if there are gaps please let us know… 3.If you can help us improve the look and feel of the GitHub version, please tell us. 4.Do you have ideas on how to pipe information from GitHub to the DCC? 5.Add to our wish-list! See poster 34. 6.Join the group/mailing list/forum. From Us: 1.Send you an example use case…. 2.Clarify the use case exercise… 3.Continue DCC updates Thank you! RDA list + forum: https://www.rd- alliance.org/group/metadata-standards-directory-working- group.html https://www.rd- alliance.org/group/metadata-standards-directory-working- group.html Action items..

6. 6 “….the focus of this meeting will be on the Metadata, on the relationships among the **Working Groups**, and the evolving notion of the Data Fabric as a framework into which the WG outputs would fit." Not just the bailiwick of the MSDWG… but more so MIG, etc. Objectives of NIST meeting…?

7. 7 1.Share updates on RDA-WGs represented 2.Collectively advance the data fabric notion 3.Delineate metadata aspects of the participating WGs; and confirm how these 'metadata aspects' interlink with and form a [the] data fabric 4.Clarify the data fabric's place within RDA and for guiding RDA's Roadmap 5.Explore the how the data fabric concept/roadmap can inform other related efforts, such as the NDS Possible objectives…