CDIF related Comments/Questions

Peter Wittenburg / Stian Soiland-Reyes

Metadata: is it done or not?

Metadata will be increasingly important and much has been done already?

Are we done? NO – but which direction, what is missing? New ideas are welcome!

DC

1994

CLARIN-CMDI

Climat-CMIP

EPOS-MD

SocSci-DDI

many others (1997…)

Cerif

DCAT

Datacite-MD

Inspire

AAS-eClass (industry)

CDIF

FAIR: make everything explicit

EOSC: no message yet!

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What is CDIF‘s message?

What are the ambitions?

Is it for newcomers?

Is it a Golden Standard as DC?

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What should communities do?

Metadata: breakdown and gaps?

• DC with orthogonal dimensions – good for libraries, not useful for real science
• „ESFRI thoughts“: DC-like – deep scientific – provenance – workflow - rights
• Datacite Pragmatics: DC +
• CDIF: F-Profile – A-Profile – I-Profile – R-Profile

all

concepts

registry

my sub

schema

all sub

schema

registry

my

schema

concept

mapping

registries

x = y

Flexible, generic solution

Would CDIF fit in?

Who manages what?

etc

FDO and Metadata

Kernel Attributes

are metadata,

profile defined by repositories

• FDOs are simple info entities
• FDOs can include different metadata types
• We lack any agreed taxonomy of metadata types
• Could add a reference to CDIF based metadata

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• Is there more FDOF can do?

PID

Type

checksum

metadata

repositories

my-data-ref

my-dc-ref

my-CMDI-ref

my-rights-md-ref

my-prov-md-ref

data

repository

FDO Profile

Some questions – any answers?