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The first step in contributing metadata to the ANDS Collections Registry is to review the metadata already captured in your local repository or associated metadata store, and map that collection description information to the RIF-CS Schema structure. This is also known as developing a crosswalk.
Mapping will usually involve local data repository technical experts as well as metadata specialists. ANDS can help with the mapping task; ask your ANDS contact for advice.
As well as matching local metadata content to the RIF-CS structure, mapping will need to consider:
- semantic mismatches (where names and associated meanings conflict)
- cardinality mismatches (where the contents of a single field in one of the schemes are split across more than one field in the other scheme), and
- technical differences in data length or data type.
Mapping will:
- Show whether you need to collect and store additional information about your collections, services, activities and parties in order to create a useful RIF-CS Schema document.
- Reveal different source systems that may contain relevant metadata, such as research management systems
- Provide information your programmer will require to generate XML documents to create your metadata feed to ANDS.
As a final step, mapping involves deciding what metadata should be shared with ANDS to enhance the discovery of research data. This is likely to be a subset of the information stored locally to describe and manage datasets.
Resources:
Metadata Content Requirements
ANDS Guide Defining a collection
| Date | Change history |
| April 2010 | Consultation draft |
| 26 October 2010 | First web publication |
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