MetaFAIR: A Metadata Application Profile for Managing Research Data

Vivian Teresa Tompkins, Brendan John Honick, Katherine Louise Polley, Jian Qin

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Abstract

This paper reports on the development of a metadata application profile (AP), MetaFAIR, designed to support research data management (RDM) to make research data findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable. The development of MetaFAIR followed a three-step process that included learning about the characteristics of datasets from researchers to establish their context and requirements, as well as iterative design and testing with researchers' feedback. Guided by the FAIR principles (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability), MetaFAIR focuses on accommodating description needs particular to computational social science datasets while seeking to provide general enough elements to describe data collections across many different domains. In this paper, MetaFAIR is placed in the context of historical and recent developments in the areas of RDM and application profile creation; following this contextualization, the paper describes the central considerations and challenges of the MetaFAIR development process and discusses its significance for future work in RDM.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)337-345
Number of pages9
JournalProceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology
Volume58
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021

Keywords

  • DCAT
  • FAIR principles
  • metadata application profiles
  • Research data management

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Computer Science
  • Library and Information Sciences

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