FAIR and metadata: conjoined twins!
FAIR cannot exsist without proper metadata, what does proper mean for geospatial metadata across science?
A workshop to reach a common picture on how FAIR and metadata are connected and what guidance can be given to properly provide metadata in order to claim your (spatial) data are FAIR.
The workshop is for experts from the geospatial and ‘near’ overlapping domains including amongst others: researchers, data scientists, data providers, application developers, archivists and librarians. The workshop will lead to have a common picture for the participants and will provide raw material for a whitepaper with findings and guidelines.
One of the often neglected properties of data is the metadata. Not that no one is saying it isn’t important, but mostly because it’s just less exciting compared to the data itself. However, data without metadata is useless. Difficult to find, unclear how to access, unclear to understand its origin and structure and therfore difficult, if not impossible, to re-use. Proper metadata increase the usability of data a lot, but only if it is put together in the right way.
We want to focus on administrative, descriptive and structural components as parts of metadata especially within the geospatial domain. How to put together the full picture of metadata with the aim of being able to create FAIR data. (see figure and table below).
In addition structured management of metadata is also an indication of maturity in data management. For example metadata is already kept in all kinds of places (think of archives, GDPR, within local networks, etc), but having this centrally available is a challenge, standardisation is essential.
In this workshop we want to present the insights and experiences in the field of standardization practices, how metadata are being dealt with across disciplines and the underlying technology from those different perspectives. Next, we want to collect input and ideas from the participants on how to get a common view of FAIR and metadata, specifically for professionals dealing with geospatial information.
Download the workshop leaflet:
Workshop NCG-GII_FAIR-MD_v04
