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MDW Schema

ncdc (no ids).mc.xml

Data-Dictionary-NCDC 1.0.0@1.0.0.xlsx

Data Catalogue

Summary section of UoN descriptive metadata attributes

Summary

Documentation can include a rich text description of the dataset and/or links to media such as documents, images, presentations, videos or links to data dictionaries, profiles or dashboards. Publishers are required to confirm that they have permission to distribute any additional media.

Documentation

This section includes attributes for spatial and temporal coverage to enable a deeper understanding of the dataset content so that researchers can make decisions about the relevance of the underlying data.

Coverage

Provenance metadata allows researchers to understand data within the context of its origins and can be an indicator of quality, authenticity and timeliness.

Provenance

Access and Governance information allows researchers to understand access, usage, limitations, formats, standards and linkage or interoperability with toolsets.

Access and Governance

This section includes information about related datasets that may have previously been linked, as well as indicating if there is the opportunity to link to other datasets in the future.

Enrichment and Linkage

Used to specify series of observations about a dataset, such as number of persons, events or findings.

Additional Observations

We recommend that sites provide a data dictionary of structural metadata that includes the following information (please see the <a href="https://metadata.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/UN/pages/1945437986" class="light" target="onboardingCompletionGuidance">Structural Metadata Completion Guidance</a> for full details including examples).

Structural Metadata

This section allows data custodians to indicate the status of the data (and define a data access URL if applicable) so that researchers understand how to access the data.

Data Status

root data-class for descriptive metadata specification