An overview of the metadata schema being developed for the UK research data discovery service. Dom Fripp at the Research Data Network event at Cardiff University, May 2016.
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UK Research Data Discovery Service metadata schema
1. The UK Research Data Discovery Service
metadata schema
Dom Fripp (Senior curation metadata developer, JISC)
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2. UKRDDS metadata schema - aims
To produce a draft of a metadata schema to fulfil the following
criteria:
› Meet user requirements (based on the evidence provided by user cases
and correlation with common fields in use across the research data
domain).
› Simple enough (in core form) to map onto the CKAN instance that
underpins the portal.
› Based on existing schemas (and good practice) in use across the
research data domain.
› Flexible enough to develop along with the service and user needs.
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6. UK Research Data Discovery Service
»Findable
› Persistent identifiers accommodated
»Accessible
› Persistent identifiers accommodated
› Access information / protocols harvested
»Interoperable
› Crosswalks to other schemas
› Vocabularies & standards used where possible
»Reusable
› License information harvested
› Rich descriptive metadata also harvested
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7. Schema cardinality
»Mandatory
› Creator
› Title
› Unique resource
identifier
› Date
› Contact
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»Recommended
› Keywords
› Publisher
› Project
› Rights
»Optional
› Description
› Subject
› Geolocation
› Format
› ResourceType
› Language
› Related Resource
9. Latest processes
»Formalise schema
development process
»Additional user requirements
(e.g. metadata licenses)
»Richer mappings from schemas
in use at repositories
»OAI-PMH format options
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