LC_core_metadata_v23.08.25-draft

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1	Note: The schema is still work in progress! For feedback and comments please contact us per mail (ckl2corpora @ uclouvain.be) or leave a comment here!
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3	metadata field	description	condition	fixed attributes	example	obligatory/optional	repeatable	cardinality

4	Corpus metadata - Administrative metadata
5	corpus_name	full name of corpus (insert several names if the corpus is known with different names in different languages)			International Corpus of Learner English	obligatory	yes	1-N
6	corpus_acronym	corpus acronym if diverging from corpus name			ICLE	optional	yes	0-N
7	corpus_version	states the particular version of a corpus (e.g. 1.0, where first digit is major corpus update, e.g. adding new data, new annotations, etc. and second digit is minor update corrections of annotations, in case add 3rd digit for changes in documentation etc. where data has not been changed)			1.0	optional	no	0-1
8	corpus_pid	persistent identifier (typically a handle or a DOI)			http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12124/25	obligatory	no	1
9	corpus_cite_as	citation of resource			Author, A. (Year). Title of the data set (Version number) [Data set]. Publisher Name. Persistent identifier.	obligatory	no	1
10	corpus_ref_article	citing or reference article that the authors would like to use to refer to the learner corpus and that typically contains an extensive verbal description of the corpus and its design			Name (2019): The mega corpus of something new, In: super important journal.	optional	yes	0-N
11	corpus_description	prose description of corpus (e.g. 200-500 words abstract), allows user to understand quickly if the resource is relevant for his/her work or not				obligatory	no	1
12	corpus_documentation	link to readme or other extensive documentation of corpus and its annotations if available			https://www.porta.eurac.edu/lci/leonide/	optional	yes	0-N
13	corpus_author	names of the people responsible for the corpus creation			Max Musterman	obligatory	yes	1-N
14	corpus_contributor	the possibility to list other people involved in the corpus creation process (e.g. annotators, transcribers, etc.) in the form of tuples of names and contribution			(Jane Doe, transcription of english texts)	optional	yes	0-N
15	corpus_contact_mail	mail address of reachable contact (institution or person), should be a mail contact with longer lasting accessibility			porta@eurac.edu	obligatory	yes	1-N
16	corpus_related_research_project	name of research project related with this resource, if possible also provide link to project webpage			https://merlin-platform.eu/	optional	yes	0-N
17	corpus_publisher	name of the legal entity (institution, agency or natural person) responsible for the distribution of the corpus, this should be the one to sue in case of copyright breach			Institute for Applied Linguistics, Eurac Research	obligatory	no	1
18	corpus_availability	indicate if corpus access is open (data is free of charge and without restrictions in use), restricted (restricted to specific audiences and/or use cases or available under charge) or closed (the corpus is not available). Note that the metadata can and should be available even for closed data.		[open, restricted, closed]		obligatory	no	1
19	corpus_access_requirements	if access restricted, indicate the requirements for data access: costs or restriction to certain communities	if availability = "restricted"		academic use	obligatory	no	1
20	corpus_licence	name of the licence for this resource			ACA-BY-NC-NORED	obligatory	no	1
21	corpus_licence_url	an URL to the full licence text			http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/	obligatory	no	1
22	corpus_date_of_publication	timestamp/month or year of the release of the current version			e.g. YYYY, YYYY-MM or YYYY-MM-DD	obligatory	no	1
23	corpus_other_versions	name of version, link or reference to other versions of this dataset,			(1.0, link to version)	optional	yes	0-N
24	corpus_character_encoding	character encoding the files are delivered with			utf-8, latin, ascii, ...	obligatory	no	1
25	corpus_file_format	file format of the corpus files provided			txt, csv, tiff, xml, JSON...	obligatory	yes	1-N
26	corpus_file_format_specifications	indicate any standard/markup language "dialect" used to encode the files or give a pointer to a detailed description in case the format is custom made			TEI P5, the BAWE corpus manual (https://www.reading.ac.uk/internal/appling/bawe/BAWE.documentation.pdf); the SWELL corpus (SVALA JSON format; https://ep.liu.se/ecp/159/023/ecp18159023.pdf)	optional	yes	0-N
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