Concept information
Preferred term
Metadata
Definition
- Any descriptive data intended to contextualize or otherwise qualify Research Data and/or Datasets and/or Publication Data and their management through time. Typically, Metadata is created in the course of a Study and then integrated, organized, and refined during Data Curation. Examples of Metadata are: Sample properties and/or treatment history recorded in an Electronic Laboratory Notebook, Instrument parameters saved with Raw Data, analysis processes saved with Analyzed Data, Settings of a Model, but also data license, affiliation of Research Users, descriptions of how files are named, structured and stored. Metadata may be registered in a Metadata Repository and assigned a Persistent Identifier.
History note
- Partially adapted from the definition of Metadata in ISO 15489-1:2016 s 3.12, in https://doi.org/10.2777/1524 and in https://helmholtz-metadaten.de/glossary
Contributor
- Alexey Boubnov
- https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8413-5196
- https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-6373
- https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1033-144X
- https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7148-7210
- https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9576-8615
- Maximilian Kabbe
- Neil MacKinnon
- Richard Thelen
- Sarah Irvine
Rights Holder
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
URI
https://purls.helmholtz-metadaten.de/prima/metadata
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