Metadata Standards for Data

Joan StarrCalifornia Digital Library

January, 2012@joan_starr

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Requirements

• Citation

• Reuse

for dataset description

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EZID: long-term identifiers made easy

http://n2t.net/ezid

• Small required set = citation elements• Optional descriptive set:– extendable lists– can refer to other standards, schemes– domain-neutral– rich ability to describe relationships to other

digital objects• Metadata Search (MDS) is full-text indexed

DataCite Metadata V. 2.2

1. Identifier (with type attribute)

2. Creator (with name identifier attributes)

3. Title (with optional type attribute)

4. Publisher

5. PublicationYear

DataCite Metadata V. 2.2Required properties

What’s missing?

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Where to go for more informationEZIDEZID application: http://n2t.net/ezid/ EZID website: http://www.cdlib.org/services/uc3/ezid/UC3 website: http://www.cdlib.org/services/uc3/

DataCiteDataCite Home: http://datacite.org/DataCite Metadata Schema:

http://schema.datacite.org/meta/kernel-2.2/index.htmlDataCite Metadata Search: http://search.datacite.org

And contact Joan Starr at uc3@ucop.edu

Questions?

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Joan Starr: uc3@ucop.edu@joan_starr