Compilation of Recommendations

Details

Short Title

R 7: Utilise tools that can help you (customise, create, mark up, validate, extract)

Source Documnent

Guidelines for publishing structured metadata on the Web V3.0

Source Document Link

https://doi.org/10.15497/RDA00066

Publishing Organisation

RDA Research Metadata Schemas WG

Date of Publication

2021-06-15

Topic

Discovery/ indexing/ search, Quality control/ curation

Addressed Stakeholders

data service providers

Keywords

automation

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There are tools available that can help generate metadata crosswalks, add vocabulary markup to metadata, and to validate resultant markup. In addition to this guidance, the Research Metadata Schemas WG has collected a list of such tools. These tools focus on freely available and/or open source projects. Tools can be grouped into 3 categories - generation, validation, and harvesting. Markup generation tools assist with the creation of markup, and in some cases align with certain guidelines or recommendations. Some other generation tools execute crosswalks from other existing meta(data), including sources such as ISO 19115, DataCite, or Dublin Core. As indicated in Recommendation 3, the Research Metadata Schemas WG has collected a set of such crosswalks, and these crosswalks can be visualised through the tool – Schema Crosswalk Visualisations. Validation tools can check if the structured data, either in JSON-LD or RDFa, is formatted correctly. Failing a validation test may result in a web page not being indexed, or not being properly displayed in a search result. Harvesting tools focus on the consumption of existing markup. This includes use cases such as validation reporting on existing markup or the aggregation of multiple markups for the construction of knowledge graphs.