Metadata

“ Peer review of the potential data paper manuscript is expected to evaluate completeness and quality of the metadata. This may include the validity of methods used and standards conformance during the collection, management and curation of data. To meet the reviewers' expectations for accuracy and usefulness, the metadata needs to be as complete and descriptive as possible. ”

“ While we encourage the field to make use of opportunities for data publishing, we realize that standards for metadata, provenance, and other descriptors are critical. INCF’s Task Force on Data Sharing looks forward to working with the community to converge on such standards. ”

“ Correspondingly, archivists present metadata as the most critical resource for preventing the small data cemeteries mentioned above from being merged into huge data cemeteries. At this stage it becomes clear that, even with direct community involvement in compiling the corpus, digital archiving does not comply to the ideal of a dialogical research exercise with no power differentials. Clearly, the researchers who formulate the metadata (specifying participants, location, genres etc.) ”

“ Changes to digital technologies produce new kinds of technical metadata—data from the object may be more or less accurately transcribed, and expressing the aboutness of the object is a constantly moving target regardless of the technology or platform. ”

“ A basic application of a data box is output, like a citation for the page being viewed, or for WD bots to extract metadata from works or their subpages. I contend that people have been unknowingly viewing this the wrong way round, value is found in the text and its metadata, not in controlling its display. The situation is similar to the assemblage of sister link boxes, some newer users streamlined and improved them and it was incorporated into the header; the header object could never effectively work for open access to data when it is designed to work against that principle. ”

“ Files on Commons will have structured metadata in the future. The developers are now looking for examples of different kinds of metadata to make sure they are aware of them when they build prototypes for structured data on Commons. You can read more and help by giving examples of interesting media files. The Structured Commons team are making sure Commons work with structured data. If you regularly contribute to Commons and Wikidata you can answer a survey that helps the team prioritise the tools that are important for the Commons and Wikidata communities. ”

“ They come for the work, the metadata is reference/identifying data, not the content. They will have the expectation that the display will be better, and are less interested in the technology, methodology, ... and are more interested in the result. — billinghurst sDrewth 05:07, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
My thinking is
Step one The location, publisher, etc, are provided to the header for metadata purposes but not automatically displayed. What is displayed and what is not may be device-dependent or otherwise context-dependent. ”

“ When I scan a book in multiple parts, I upload them without metadata here so they can be combined and reuploaded as one file with metadata at Commons. 2. Especially for books of length, that would take a great deal of time; this book, scanning with PDF as native, took me over six hours in two sittings. I usually make (and will make in this case) high-quality scan images of pages with images. Another problem is file size: I have to scan to a flash drive which only has about 6 GB of free space, so scanning high-quality images would require more sittings. ”

“ As I mentioned below, Wikidata and Wikisource mainspace pages (rather than Author: pages) now do have an accepted relationship, though some hammering out of details might still occur. Basically any text in mainspace here can have a metadata page on Wikidata. This is not to argue against an effort here, on categories, given enough consensus. But some consideration of where and what to emphasise, for projects involving hundreds of thousands of edits, is only sensible. ”

“ We are working with a colleague at the Oxford Academy of Documentary Film, who is helping James with the basic digitisation, logging and cataloguing. Logging of video is being done with Final Cut Pro, with clips then being imported together with audio and still images into the desktop media asset management system Expression Media. This enables metadata to be exported as XML and then transformed in order to structure the interface. Additional segmentation for video clips will be achieved using a tool such as Frameline47, with subclip metadata exported to MPEG-7 and integrated. ”

“ What I'm not really interested in is uploading individual books or groups of a dozen books, especially when the metadata has to be extracted, parsed and converted/reformatted manually from HTML or other messy sources. --Nemo 09:59, 4 February 2014 (UTC) Yes, journals are usually easier: as long as they contain the issue number (and date, if possible) in the filename, I regularly upload thousands of them even when they don't have any associated metadata, if it's very repetitive and easy to produce. ”

“ When a .DjVu is uploaded and hosted as a source-file, all that additional, internal "informative data" is processed as / forced to the metadata part of the File: namespace where one typically finds info like camera-type, various date, dpi, colors, and similar for true image files like .PNGs, .JPGs and .TIFFs for example. ”

“ Passive approaches include posting data on a project or personal website or mailing or emailing data upon request, although the latter can be problematic when dealing with large data and bandwidth constraints. More active, robust, and preferred approaches include: (1) publishing the data in an open repository or archive (see Rule 6) ; (2) submitting the data (or subsets thereof) as appendices or supplements to journal articles, such as is commonly done with the PLOS family of journals; and (3) publishing the data, metadata, and relevant code as a “data paper” [5] . ”

“ The only metadata fields created specifically for the Wikimedia Commons uploads were "Wiki_Permissions", in which the necessary license templates would be listed for that batch, and "gwtoolset-url-to-the-media-file", which listed the link to the image to be uploaded. Some unnecessary metadata fields, such as notes for NLS cataloguers, were scrubbed from the xml files for upload.
I test uploaded images from NLS collections on the Beta cluster approximately 3-4 times before attempting a live upload. ”

“ Perfect documentation of provenance is rarely, if ever, attained in scientific work today. The higher the quality of provenance information, the higher the chance of enabling data reuse. In general, data reuse is most possible when: 1) data; 2) metadata (information describing the data) ; and 3) information about the process of generating those data, such as code, are all provided. ”

“ Thumbnails initially represent the media objects, which are then enlarged when the user selects items of interest.
Figure 8. Architecture of fluid data prototype. Image by Judith Aston and Paul Matthews, 2010. In our HTML5 prototype, items may be selected according to theme and period/place, then brought into a media browser, which presents two main videos or images. A k-means cluster of resources according to metadata (with a set of binaries for each item reflecting inclusion or exclusion in a metadata term) results in the ability to juxtapose resources on the same theme by time and place. ”

“ The aim was to set in place a method by which members of the Digital Access team could easily be given access to and training on the tools necessary to upload digital content from future digitisation projects onto Wikimedia Commons on an ongoing basis. XML metadata files specific to the batch upload process were created for the identified content and metadata mapping .json files created for the toolset, and the content was test-uploaded on the Wikimedia Commons Beta Cluster (see Procedure, below) . ”

“ They can choose to only search for accessible items, or they can request access to items where necessary. And at any point, users know why they can or cannot access particular resources.
Figure 6. This user has subscription rights to this resource in the ELAR website. Image by ELAR/David Nathan, 2012. Searching, browsing and metadata So far I have described the role of protocol in navigating ELAR’s resources. ELAR also provides search and browse functions. Its search is fairly standard, offering a stemmed search over all archive metadata [18] . ”

“ Research institutions should also support the establishment of worldwide, open standards for metadata and querying that publishers and repositories could implement to make OA research more discoverable, retrievable, and useful. ”

“ In fact, efficient discovery of data resources will always bring advantages to researchers and data publishers.
Enrichment of metadata documents describing fitness for use of data resources will increase the usability, verifiability and credibility of those resources. Because data publishers will provide recognition to those involved in the management, discovery and publishing of biodiversity data, data resources locked in institutional and individual closets are likely to be discovered earlier than later. ”

“ Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
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The CommonsMetadata feature was added to all wikis. It creates metadata information about multimedia files (like their license) that can be read automatically by computer programs. It not only works for Commons, but for all wikis, and you can use it for files on your wiki by editing templates used to describe metadata. JavaScript code used on Wikimedia sites is now saved locally on your computer to load faster. ”

“ Linked to this, probably the biggest change is Wikidata: and how we now have our long wished for centralised data place, and can pull metadata, including links, images, etc., which means with some of our creating/updating of author templates we can auto-populate. Much of the power of that automated data is really still to come, and we still haven't been the best denizens there populating our data/knowledge. ”

“ The archive functions as a searchable container for those materials. ELAR uses Web 2.0 interactivity to provide a dynamic access process. Depositors can edit metadata for their collection at any time, including the metadata that governs access. More importantly, the archive “plays out” protocol throughout its interface (see Figures 3–6) , always letting users know which resources they can and cannot access, and offering a method for individual access to otherwise restricted resources through direct application to the depositor (via “subscription”) . ”

“ To this end, they have also developed metadata that can be used to associate creative works with their public domain or license status in a machine-readable way. A goal is to enable people to use search and other online applications to find, for example, photographs that are free provided the original photographer is credited, or songs that may be copied, distributed, or sampled with no restrictions whatsoever. ”

“ For these editors, tools and processes that are commonly used in resource-richer communities are often not helpful, as they depend on data that are already well-structured and easy to automatically feed to Wikidata. Commercial journal platforms and common metadata structures are well established in the Global North; in contrast, the situation in Brazil and elsewhere is ad-hoc. e process we present in this chapter is more easily replicable in Global South contexts. ”

“ We review the state of the art of data discovery options and the mechanisms in place for incentivizing data publishers efforts towards easy, efficient and enhanced publishing, dissemination, sharing and re-use of biodiversity data. We propose the establishment of the 'biodiversity data paper' as one possible mechanism to offer scholarly recognition for efforts and investment by data publishers in authoring rich metadata and publishing them as citable academic papers. ”

“ Production with respect to each document shall include all electronic versions and data files from email applications, as well as from word processing, spreadsheet, database, or other electronic data repositories applicable to any attachments, and shall be provided to the grand jury where possible in its native file format and shall include all original metadata for each electronic documents or data file. ”

“ However, we currently have no one place we can put all the data, or even a solid idea of how to split data between Commons, WD and WS index pages in the general case. Which has lead to "some people" (i.e. me) saying "sod it" and just not bothering too much. I try to get the file metadata for scans to be reasonable, but since I don't even know what best practices are, I leave it at that for files. For "easy" works like a single volume novel, WD can hold pretty much all of it in the work/edition structure, and only things like the pagelist need to be done at the file (or Index) level. ”

“ Digital technologies have, however, opened up a new set of possibilities through which a body of work can be kept together and preserved in its entirety. These technologies also offer the facility to link fieldwork recordings to contextual commentary through the creative use of metadata. ”

“ Technically, the question of access rights to the collected data is solved in the sense that the archive allows researchers to categorise their data into different levels of access. Funding agencies like the Volkswagen Foundation would like the default level to be set at open and public so that all data (and not just the metadata) is openly accessible unless a specific reason is given to make it a temporarily restricted source. In fact, most project teams tend to see it the other way around. They open up very few selected show pieces for which there is open access. ”