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This document is useful when researchers are entering a dataset or a data file in order to deposit their data. It defines and explains the categories of controlled vocabulary lists used in the SWISSUbase metadata schema for the social sciences. The categories were chosen based on the set created...

This presentation includes details on flexible metadata for Dataverse as used in the TROLLing database in Norway

In the autumn of 2021 Digital Research Alliance of Canada held three webinars about using/setting up Dataverse. This is the recording of the third webinar: Data curation and metadata best practices.

Brief Guide - Dataverse Metadata

One of the most useful features of the Dataverse repository software is the large number of metadata fields it provides for describing research data. This guide is intended to support both the novice and experienced user in creating metadata for datasets in a Dataverse repository. It provides off...

The Recommendations on certifying services required to enable FAIR within EOSC document contains an analysis of activities relevant to certification of the services required to enable FAIR research outputs within EOSC as of November 2020. It discusses incentivisation and support, offers an analys...

The content of this report is intended for CESSDA SPs, aspiring CESSDA members, CESSDA MO, and anyone interested in the topics in general and in the metadata work of CESSDA in particular. The report is supposed to provide information for current CESSDA SPs and aspiring CESSDA SPs on the initiativ...

Data quality is a topic which is often discussed and attracts a lot of interest, but the way in which it is approached varies widely. CODATA's fourth and final webinar in the 2021 series, examined different approaches in the use of metadata for describing data quality from the perspective of data...

Detailed description and explanation of metadata by AUSSDA. This document is an extract from “Heider, Veronika; Butzlaff, Iris; Bodlos, Anita; Hönegger, Lisa (2020). Self-Deposit Manual. Self-depositing data at AUSSDA” which is available here and is licensed under a CreativeCommons Attribution 4...

This report presents the results of the first year of Task 2.3 from the FAIRsFAIR project. It gives guidelines to enable features for repositories which allow them not only to host FAIR digital objects, but also to be FAIR themselves. The recommendations were collected in the workshop “Building t...