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Data Documentation / Metadata

Learn best practices for describing your data to support sharing and reusability. Includes discipline specific metadata standards and best practices.

DDI

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The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) is an international standard for describing the data produced by surveys and other observational methods in the social, behavioral, economic, and health sciences. " -DDI

Dublin Core

Dublin Core is a schema with a relatively small set of terms that can be used to describe digital as well as physical resources.

The Dublin Core standard previously included two levels, Simple and Qualified. Simple Dublin Core included 15 elements, while Qualified Dublin Core included three additional elements, as well as a element refinements/qualifiers.

In 2012, Simple and Qualified Dublin Core were merged into a single set of terms using the RDF data model. These are the DCMI Metadata terms listed below.

Original 15 Metadata Elements

  1. Title
  2. Creator
  3. Subject
  4. Description
  5. Publisher
  6. Contributor
  7. Date
  8. Type
  9. Format
  10. Identifier
  11. Source
  12. Language
  13. Relation
  14. Coverage
  15. Rights

DCMI Metadata Terms

  1. abstract
  2. accessRights
  3. accrualMethod
  4. accrualPeriodicity
  5. accrualPolicy
  6. alternative
  7. audience
  8. available
  9. bibliographicCitation
  10. conformsTo
  11. contributor
  12. coverage
  13. created
  14. creator
  15. date
  16. dateAccepted
  17. dateCopyrighted
  18. dateSubmitted
  19. description
  20. educationLevel
  21. extent
  22. format
  23. hasFormat
  24. hasPart
  25. hasVersion
  26. identifier
  27. instructionalMethod
  28. isFormatOf
  29. isPartOf
  30. isReferencedBy
  31. isReplacedBy
  32. isRequiredBy
  33. issued
  34. isVersionOf
  35. language
  36. license
  37. mediator
  38. medium
  39. modified
  40. provenance
  41. publisher
  42. references
  43. relation
  44. replaces
  45. requires
  46. rights
  47. rightsHolder
  48. source
  49. spatial
  50. subject
  51. tableOfContents
  52. temporal
  53. title
  54. type
  55. valid

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative - http://dublincore.org/

Dublin Core Specifications - http://dublincore.org/specifications/

Dublin Core Terms - http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/

DCMI Training Resources - http://dublincore.org/resources/training/

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