1 Metadata Data Foundation and Terminology RDAP 5

1 Metadata Data Foundation and Terminology RDA-P 5 San Diego - Keith Jeffery

The Metadata WGs / IGs 2 MIG: Metadata Interest Group MSDWG: Metadata Standards Directory Working Group (until 2015 -03) MSCWG DICIG: Data In Context Interest Group RDPIG: Research Data Provenance Interest Group ?

Metadata Principles § The only difference between metadata and data is mode of use § Metadata is not just for data, it is also for users, software services, computing resources § Metadata is not just for description and discovery; it is also for contextualisation (relevance, quality, restrictions (rights, costs)) and for coupling users, software and computing resources to data (to provide a VRE) § Metadata must be machine-understandable as well as human understandable for autonomicity (formalism) § Management (meta)data is also relevant (research proposal, funding, project information, research outputs, outcomes, impact…) 3

So we need metadata that has § Formal syntax § Structure § Respecting referential and functional integrity § With constraints to ensure quality § Declared semantics § Terms in ontological structure § Multilingual § Multiple ontologies (sets of terms and their relationships) § Crosswalks between ontologies 4

Metadata Plan 5 § Use Cases § With metadata elements used/required § Metadata Standards Directory towards Catalog § With metadata elements § Towards Recommended Metadata Packages for Purposes § Commonality ‘packages’ § Validation by RDA groups § RDA recommendations

Open Data: Relationships not Elements Unique Identifier (for later use including citation) Location (URL) Description Keywords (terms) Temporal coordinates Geospatial coordinates Originator (organisation(s) / person(s)) Project Facility / equipment Quality Availability (licence, persistence) Provenance Citations Related publications (white or grey) Related software Schema Medium / format ©Keith G Jeffery et al CRIS 14 Rome May 2014 These are NOT properties or elements, they are relationships § § § § § 6 6

Open Data: Purposing the elements CRIS 14 Rome May 2014 detailed ©Keith G Jeffery et al context Unique Identifier (for later use including citation) Location (URL) Description Keywords (terms) Temporal coordinates Geospatial coordinates Originator (organisation(s) / person(s)) Project Facility / equipment Quality Availability (licence, persistence) Provenance Citations Related publications (white or grey) Related software Schema Medium / format discovery § § § § § 7 7

Metadata: one classification § Re-use § Interoperation CRIS 14 Rome May 2014 PURPOSE ©Keith G Jeffery et al § Discovery § Context § Detail PROCESS Description Location (navigation) Contextualisation Preservation Provenance Schema REQUIREMENTS § § § 8 8

The Broader Picture: Virtualisation of e -Research through Metadata 9 Complete cohort of researchers, research managers, innovators, media User Model providing what the user requires representing research interaction with data, processing, persons Processing Model Data Model representing ICT We are talking this about Resource Model Complete ICT environment for research ©Keith G Jeffery et al Based on engage Vision CRIS 14 Rome May 2014 9

Please § Complete Use Case Template for your use cases § Document in MSDWG Directory any metadata standards used § Discuss metadata requirements or experiences with the Metadata Groups 10