Practice Abstract - Research and innovation

Defining a set of metadata for annotating data in a centralised repository

Collecting a number of appropriately selected resources (data objects), which have been produced by Thematic Networks, in a centralised repository is not a matter of copying and pasting files into a folder. The data need to be ‘findable’ and part of making it so is to define a set of metadata. In short terms, metadata is information about data. This information may have to do with the title and author/creator of the data object, the language in which its content is being delivered, its file format, the date of its creation, the type of the data object we are dealing with, the project from which it has been made available, and other useful information.



In order to store data into a centralised repository, we need to annotate (describe) this data by assigning values to the metadata defined. The use of metadata can significantly enhance the process of searching for data in the repository, as well as narrowing down the number of search results retrieved (after the execution of a search query) by using search filters. To address the data findability requirement, we should draw upon existing work helping to identify the most important metadata to define. Such work is made available from schema.org (https://schema.org/), Dublin Core (https:// dublincore.org/), and RDF Schema (https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-schema/).



Details about the work done in EURAKNOS for coming up with the set of metadata required is reported in Deliverables 3.2 and 4.3.

Source Project
EURAKNOS
Ongoing | 2019-2021
Main funding source
Horizon 2020 (EU Research and Innovation Programme)
Geographical location
Belgium
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