Fundamentals of scientific metadata: why context matters

Wednesday 10 Jan 2024, 09:00 → 17:00 Europe/Berlin

313 (Universitätsbibliothek, RWTH Aachen)

Silke Gerlich (HMC)

This course is a Satellite Event in the scope of Tag der Forschungsdaten NRW 2023 and takes place in person at RWTH Aachen University.

 

This course is an entry-level introduction to the fundamentals of scientific metadata for PhD students, early-career researchers and Postdocs. In this course we will look at the intricate relationship between (digital) research data, metadata and knowledge, discuss why metadata is critical in today’s research, as well as explain some of the technologies and concepts related to structured machine-readable metadata.

 

Have you ever struggled to make sense of scientific data provided by a collaborator - or even understanding your own data 5 months after publication? Do you see difficulties in meeting the data description requirements of your funding agency? Do you want your data to have lasting value, but don’t know how to ensure that?

 

Precise and structured description of research data is key for scientific exchange and progress - and also for the recognition of your effort in data collection. The solution: make your data findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable by describing them with metadata.

This course is targeted especially at scientific staff and researchers in the Helmholtz Research Field Information but is open to anyone, who would like to better understand research data annotation with metadata.

You will learn:

• about the differences between and the importance of data & metadata
• to annotate your research data with structured metadata
• to find and evaluate a suitable metadata framework and data repository
• to use basic Markdown / JSON / XML
• which tools are already available to level up your metadata annotation game
• why structured metadata is important and how it can increase your scientific visibility

 

Registration period: 14. November - 15. Dezember 2023

 

organized by HMC Hub Information

      

 

 

09:00 → 09:35 Welcome & Introduction

09:35 → 10:40 Data & Metadata

10:40 → 10:55 Break

10:55 → 11:55 Structure & Schema: Part 1

11:55 → 12:15 Structure & Schema: Part 2

12:15 → 13:15 Lunch Break

13:15 → 14:30 Enabling Technologies & Standards

14:30 → 14:45 Break

14:45 → 15:15 Enabling Technologies & Standards: Enabling Technologies & Standards: Part 2

15:15 → 15:55 (Web) Location & Identifiers

15:55 → 16:10 Break

16:10 → 16:40 Lightning Talk

16:40 → 17:00 Wrap-up