Here’s an overview of the project:
Project Title:
Components of Successful Metadata Registry Frameworks
Goals of Project:
Evaluate a sample of metadata registries
Identify factors impacting registration success and limitations
Assess existing registries & analyze functionalities
Produce a list of features and processes crucial to successful metadata registration.
Develop a prototype framework supporting such features
Project Team:
Intern: Angela Murillo, UNC โ Chapel Hill, SILS
Primary Mentor: Jane Greenberg, UNC- Chapel Hill, SILS โ Metadata Research Center
Secondary Mentors: John Kunze (University of California Curation Center, California Digital Library) and Joan Boone (Metadata Research Center)
Summary:
Metadata registration (asserting element names, values, restrictions and other properties) is essential for interoperability among data repositories in the DataONE network. ย Advancing metadata registration processes (ease, transparency, discoverability of prior registrations) within DataONE would promote metadata use and understanding, hence discovery and interoperable re-use of data held at member nodes.