RDA-F4-01M: Metadata is offered in such a way that it can be harvested and indexed

• Short Title: RDA-F4-01M: Metadata is offered in such a way that it can be harvested and indexed
• Source Documnent: FAIR Data Maturity Model, Specification and Guidelines 2020
• Source Document Link: https://doi.org/10.15497/rda00050
• Publishing Organisation: RDA FAIR Data Maturity Model WG
• Date of Publication: 2020-06-25
• Topic: Metadata richness/ ingest/ submission, Discovery/ indexing/ search
• Keywords: metadata, harvesting, crawlers, indexing
• Addressed Stakeholders: data service providers, data stewards
• Full Text: The indicator tests whether the metadata is offered in such a way that it can be indexed. In some cases, metadata could be provided together with the data to a local institutional repository or to a domain-specific or regional portal, or metadata could be included in a landing page where it can be harvested by a search engine. The indicator remains broad enough on purpose not to limit the way how and by whom the harvesting and indexing of the data might be done.