Compilation of Recommendations

Details

Short Title

FsF-F2-01M Metadata includes descriptive core elements (creator, title, data identifier, publisher, publication date, summary and keywords) to support data findability.

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

Metadata richness/ ingest/ submission, Discovery/ indexing/ search

Addressed Stakeholders

data service providers, research community, data stewards

Keywords

metadata, descriptive, core

Text

Metadata is descriptive information about a data object. Since the metadata required differs depending on the users and their applications, this metric focuses on core metadata. The core metadata is the minimum descriptive information required to enable data finding, including citation which makes it easier to find data. We determine the required metadata based on common data citation guidelines (e.g., DataCite, ESIP, and IASSIST), and metadata recommendations for data discovery (e.g., EOSC Datasets Minimum Information (EDMI), DataCite Metadata Schema, W3C Recommendation Data on the Web Best Practices and Data Catalog Vocabulary). This metric focuses on domain-agnostic core metadata. Domain or discipline-specific metadata specifications are covered under metric FsF-R1.3-01M. A repository should adopt a schema that includes properties of core metadata, whereas data authors should take the responsibility of providing core metadata.