Exercise 1
Research, note, and compare the metadata requirements of different repositories/data centers (your university, Zenodo, and Qualiservice). What do you notice?
a) Search on your university’s website: Does your university have a repository? Which metadata fields are required in the submission forms?
Members of Freie Universität Berlin can find two examples here:
- https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/35442.2
- https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/36287.3
b) Go to the generic repository Zenodo https://zenodo.org/ and open 1-2 resources, e.g. https://zenodo.org/records/7855563. Note down the metadata of the retrieved resources.
c) Note down the metadata fields at Qualiservice: https://www.qualiservice.org/de/qsearch.html such as: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.938536.
a) Members of Freie Universität Berlin: Both publications include a short view and a detailed display of the metadata. A wide range of metadata is visible, including the following information:
Names of all authors, Publication date, DOI and URL, Abstract, Page number, Language, Keywords, Title, Document type, Subtitle, Department, Institute/Section, Serial number, Access rights/licenses, ISSN
b) Zenodo: Title, Author(s), Document type (e.g., Poster, Journal Article…), Accessibility status (open, restricted), Publication date, Versions, External resources, Keywords and subjects, DOI, Resource type, Publisher, Conference, Language, Rights/license, Citation, Export
c) Qualiservice: Citation, DOI, Abstract, Supplement to, Study report, Funding, Coverage, Event(s), Domain attributes, Comment, License, Size
Each platform/archive applies its own metadata sets, but the fundamental metadata elements present in all include:
- Author(s)
- Title
- Publication date
- Abstract
- DOI
- Licenses