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Importance of Metadata: Enhancing Data Documentation and Accessibility

Explore the significance of metadata in providing comprehensive information about data, its content, quality, condition, and other characteristics. Learn why metadata is crucial for data completeness and how to write effective metadata.

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Importance of Metadata: Enhancing Data Documentation and Accessibility

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  1. MetaDataMES gCORE, Fall 2011 Judy Cushing

  2. What are metadata? "data about data." Read about metadata at the Andrews’ Site. Metadata are a component of data and describe the data. Metadata describe the content, quality, condition, and other characteristics of data. Without proper documentation a data set is incomplete. Who? What? Where? When? … Why? Metadata requested by LTER sites are generally consistent with national standards, specifically the Ecological Metadata Language (EML) and the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Biological Data Profile. http://andrewsforest.oregonstate.edu/lter/data/metadata.cfm?topnav=115

  3. Metadata Instructions how to write • "Database Level Information" • Entity and Attribute Level Information • Other : • Unit Dictionary - unit measurement codes for range attributes • keywords – • images • Spatial Data Documentation Guidelines What are metadata? (cont) http://andrewsforest.oregonstate.edu/lter/data/metadata.cfm?topnav=115

  4. CF002  * (Oct 2 1968 - Present)   Long-term stream chemistry concentrations and fluxes: Small watershed proportional samples in the Andrews Experimental Forest. PI: Sherri L. Johnson Let’s look at some metadata … * Johnson, S.; Fredriksen, R. 2011. Long-term stream chemistry concentrations and fluxes: Small watershed proportional samples in the Andrews Experimental Forest. Long-Term Ecological Research. Forest Science Data Bank, Corvallis, OR. [Database]. Available: http://andrewsforest.oregonstate.edu/data/abstract.cfm?dbcode=CF002 (19 October 2011).

  5. Let’s write some metadata …

  6. Why are metadata important?

  7. Why are metadata hard to get??

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