DCMI Science and Metadata Community
| Name: | DCMI Science and Metadata Community |
| Type: | Community Interest Group |
| Status: | Inactive Finished |
| Charter: | The DCMI Science and Metadata Community is a forum for individuals and organizations to exchange information and knowledge about metadata describing scientific data (data methodologically collected for research, analysis, tracking, forecasting, and other uses). The Community focuses on metadata challenges specific to scientific data curation, and solutions that will benefit from the architecture and global reach of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. |
| Moderator/Chair: |
Alex Ball Jane Greenberg Jian Qin |
| Established: | 2009-01-12 |
News and Announcements
2004-12-13, The next F2F Working Group meeting for DC:Accessibility will be held in melbourne in the we February 7 - 11 2005. Those interested in attending in person or via telecommunications should contact Liddy Nevile.
Background
Funders of scientific research are increasingly attentive to the management of scientific data so that the full value of research investments can be realized and preserved. Doing so requires attention to the description and structure of datasets and to vocabularies for supporting data preservation, reuse, and repurposing.
The DCMI Science and Metadata Community is a forum for individuals and organizations to exchange information and knowledge about metadata describing scientific data (data methodologically collected for research, analysis, tracking, forecasting, and other uses). The Community focuses on metadata challenges specific to scientific data curation, and solutions that will benefit from the architecture and global reach of the Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative.
The central challenges include:
- Canonical identification of datasets, critical for establishing provenance, auditing value and use, and attracting social-networking attention that will enhance their value.
- Better description of data and vocabularies, such that potential users may more easily determine suitability for use and repurposing, as well as ancillary applications for rendering and interpretation
- Design and declaration of schemas to support reuse.
An initial deliverable of the group includes a survey of existing standards and metadata elements used to describe datasets, which will form the basis for community discussion and a work agenda to be initiated at DC-2009.
Forums
Mailing list
To join or leave:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?SUBED1=dc-science&A=1
Wiki
The DCMI Science and Metadata Community has installed a Wiki at http://purl.org/dc/science.<!--
Open Issues
None.
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Metadata for Scientific Datasets Workshop held in Berlin, 25 September 2008
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Community constituted: 2009-01-12