Overview of Scientific Metadata for Data Publishing, Citation, and Curation
Citation
. 2011. ‘Overview of Scientific Metadata for Data Publishing, Citation, and Curation.’ In: Eleventh International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC-2011): "Metadata Harmonization: Bridging Languages of Description". KB, The Hague, The Netherlands. 21–23 September 2011.
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Notes
Presentation given at the Science and Metadata Community Workshop.
Abstract
Scientific data as a resource type is very hard to characterize, not least because of the sheer variety of requirements placed on it by different areas of research. It is no surprise, then, that scientific metadata has traditionally been very discipline- and application-specific. With the rise of interdisciplinary research and data sharing, though, there is increasing pressure for common standards in areas such as data discovery and curation. Mr. Ball will report on his research assessing the feasibility of a common metadata profile for scientific data discovery and ask, "Is it worth a try?"