Landscape of Metadata Schemas for Research Data Repositories: FAIRsharing Analysis
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2023-11-17
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INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar
Abstract
Research data is the recorded information generated while conducting research, writing an
article, theses and dissertations, and other research processes. Providing access to research
data is a challenge for all stakeholders in the research community. Metadata schemas contain
metadata properties describing a research data repository, such as general scope, content,
infrastructure, technical, quality, and metadata standards. Several metadata schemas are
available for describing the research data repository. However, to facilitate the selection of an
appropriate metadata standard for the research repository, the RDA Metadata Standards
Directory, re3data.org, and FAIRsharing have compiled a list of metadata schemas in a single
platform. FAIRsharing is a curated platform for information and education resources on data
and metadata standards, inter-related to databases and data policies. Therefore, researchers
preferred FAIRsharing to undertake a study on the assessment of the landscape of metadata
schemas indexed by the platform with objectives of identifying the list of metadata schemas,
studying their growth and development, distinguishing the disciplinary metadata schemas,
identifying the country-wise contributions, organizations, funding and government bodies and
institutional contributions in developing and actively maintaining metadata schemas, etc. The
result found that FAIRsharing has covered over 1600 metadata schemas covering all the major
domains of science and technology, medicine, management, arts & humanities, and social science.
It has overwhelming organizations to maintain and fund developing the metadata schemas. The
maximum of the metadata schemas is attributed by the Creative Commons attribution, GNU
General Public License, Open Data Commons Attributions, etc. Overall, the study found it
worthy for data curators, metadata creators, data repository developers, policymakers, research
data librarians, etc., to select the appropriate metadata schema for the research data repository.
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26th International Symposium, ETD 2023, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, 26-28 October, 2023
Keywords
Assessment, Metadata Schemas, Online Administration, Research Data Repositories, Response Rate