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Title: | Metadata Realities for Cyberinfrastructure: Data Authors as Metadata Creators |
Author(s): | Mayernik, Matthew S. |
Subject(s): | Cyberinfrastructure
metadata scientific data practices |
Abstract: | Cyberinfrastructure systems for digital data will depend on effective ways of creating and sharing metadata. In distributed scientific collaborations, creating and collecting metadata is a significant challenge. Metadata creation is often an unfunded mandate. We present a preliminary study of metadata creation by data authors in a large science and technology research center. We asked researchers to create metadata using the Dublin Core-based metadata fields for inclusion in a center-wide metadata repository. The results of our pilot test indicate that data authors face a number of challenges in creating metadata, including organizing group vs. individual knowledge, adapting an unfamiliar metadata scheme to the specifics of their project, and drawing boundaries between data sets. |
Issue Date: | 2010-02-03 |
Genre: | Conference Paper / Presentation |
Type: | Text |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/14943 |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2010-02-22 |
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