DataONE Preservation and Metadata Working Group Report

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J o h n K u n z eC a l i f o r n i a D i g i t a l L i b r a r y

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Preservation and Metadata

• Preservation • 2011: drafted DataONE preservation strategy• 2013: mutants (nothing is mutable, all is mutable)• 2014: no data loss!• Metadata• 2012: metadata dictionary planning begins• 2013: “Metadictionary” emerges from summer internship• 2014: YAMZ (yamz.net) – Yet Another Metadata Zoo

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Problem: traditional standardization

• Change by committee is ugly, costly, and slow• Example: Dublin Core, 15 cross-domain terms

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The Metadata Universe

Jenn Riley, IU

The Metadata Universe

Jenn Riley, IU

The Metadata Universe

Jenn Riley, IU

The Metadata Universe

Jenn Riley, IU

The Metadata Universe

Jenn Riley, IU

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An alternate metadata universe

• One dictionary, one namespace• Any research domain, any part of “metadata speech”• Names, values, units, relationships, ...

• Search for terms, comment, add and edit terms, API• All terms have globally unique persistent identifiers

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Dictionary sociology• Crowd-sourced with reputation-based voting• Lessons from Wikipedia, StackOverflow, Internet-Drafts

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Feedback welcome!

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