FsF-F4-01M Metadata is offered in such a way that it can be retrieved by machines.

• Short Title: FsF-F4-01M Metadata is offered in such a way that it can be retrieved by machines.
• Source Documnent: FAIRsFAIR Data Object Assessment Metrics
• Source Document Link: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4081213
• Publishing Organisation: FAIRsFAIR
• Date of Publication: 2020-10-12
• Topic: Machine-actionability
• Keywords: machine-actionable, metadata
• Addressed Stakeholders: data service providers
• Full Text: This metric refers to ways through which the metadata of data is exposed or provided in a standard and machine-readable format. Assessing this metric will require an understanding of the capabilities offered by the data repository used to host the data. Metadata may be available through multiple endpoints. For example, if data is hosted by a repository, the repository may disseminate its metadata through a metadata harvesting protocol (e.g., via OAI-PMH) and/or a web service. Metadata may also be embedded as structured data on a data page for use by web search engines such as Google and Bing or be available as linked (open) data.