Think Globally, Act Locally: The Importance of Elevating Data Repository Metadata to the Global Infrastructure
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Think Globally, Act Locally: The Importance of Elevating Data Repository Metadata to the Global Infrastructure
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2022
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Inconsistent and incomplete applications of metadata standards and unsatisfactory approaches to connecting repository holdings across the global research infrastructure inhibit data discovery and reusability. The Realities of Academic Data Sharing (RADS) Initiative has found that institutions and researchers create and have access to the most complete metadata, but that valuable metadata found in these local institutional repositories (IRs) are not making their way into global data infrastructure such as DataCite or Crossref. This panel examines the local to global spectrum of metadata completeness, including the challenges of obtaining quality metadata at a local level, specifically at Cornell University, and the loss of metadata during the transfer processes from IRs into global data infrastructure. The metadata completeness increases over time, as users reuse data and contribute to the metadata. As metadata improves and grows, users find and develop connections within data not previously visible to them. By feeding local IR metadata into the global data infrastructure, the global infrastructure starts giving back in the form of these connections. We believe that this information will be helpful in coordinating metadata better and more effectively across data repositories and creating more robust interoperability and reusability between and among IRs.
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Taylor, Shawna; Wright, Sarah; Narlock, Mikala R.; Habermann, Ted. (2022). Think Globally, Act Locally: The Importance of Elevating Data Repository Metadata to the Global Infrastructure. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/228001.
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