CERIF in Practice Workshop
December 9, 2011 4 Comments
I attended the (ARMA UK) CERIF in Practice workshop on Wednesday (7th Dec) and had interesting conversation with Keith Jeffrey from euroCRIS about what sort of information we should attach as metadata to our data in order to maximise its discoverability and utility and he suggested an interesting 3 level taxonomy.
1. The top level relates to the Discoverability of the Resource and could be based around the 15 Dublin Core elements
2. The second level is contextual and essentially covers the elements in cerif (notably; outcomes – publications, patents etc, funding; research council grant, person; project team members, organisation- Uni, collaborators.
3. Finally a specific level giving the minutiae.
This is quite appealing as we already collect much of the information in the first two levels through our current systems (MyProjects, e-prints and MyImpact) so the main additional input we’d be requiring from the academic would be at the third level.
Useful links:
To this I’d add a time dimension, for example:
Some meta-data is immutable and can be associated at the time of generation of the data.
But we might need to allow later correction or removal of certain meta-data if it was deemed to be incorrect or inappropriate.
Other meta-data may be added later as a result of the further use of that data, especially in fields where cross-disciplinary research is growing.
Clive -
sorry for the late post; just stumbled across this.
CERIF includes temporal semamtics alongside role semantics in all relaitons between base entities I(objects) so the temporal dimension is well-defined.
Keith
Thanks for this, very useful. A number of projects are hitting on this, or very similar three level models. This is something we would like to coordinate at the programme level. See Louise Corti’s post about the metadata discussion at the #jiscmrd Launch Meeting: http://researchdataessex.posterous.com/metadata-session-feedback-mrd-2011-13-program
Best, Simon.
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