MDW Metadata Catalogue

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Data Catalogue

Summary metadata must be completed by Data Custodians onboarding metadata.

Summary

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

Documentation

This information includes attributes for geographical and temporal coverage, cohort details etc. to enable a deeper understanding of the dataset content so that researchers can make decisions about the relevance of the underlying data.

Coverage

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

Provenance

Accessibility 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

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

Based on schema.org observation model and used to specify series of observations about a dataset, such as number of persons, events or findings. 

Multiple observations about the dataset may be provided and users are expected to provide at least one observation.

We will be supporting the schema.org observation model (https://schema.org/Observation) with default values. 

Users will be encouraged to provide their own statistical populations as the project progresses however, initially we will encourage users to provide observations on the number of persons, number of events and number of findings included in the dataset.

Observations

Multiple events can be associated with a data model

Events

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/ADR/pages/1974241694/8+Structural+Metadata" class="light" target="onboardingCompletionGuidance">Structural Metadata Completion Guidance</a> for full details including examples).

Structural Metadata

root data-class for ADR UK descriptive metadata specifications