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Welcome to the guidelines of the metadata service EUDAT-B2FIND for data providers. These guidelines are intended to provide information about the requirements for successful integration in B2FIND.
+ @@ -76,14 +78,14 @@Beside the first (MD Generation) and last (MD Uploading) step, the sub processes ‘MD Providing’, ‘MD Harvesting’ and ‘MD Mapping’ correspond to the paragraphs of the guidelines.
-While we don't go in the technical details, we refer +
These guidelines don’t go in the technical details, but there is more detailed information available:
This section describes the actions a data provider site must do in order to publish metadata in the EUDAT-B2FIND catalogue. - There are a few mandatory Requirements and some 'best practices' or Recommendations . - The second section of the document concentrates on Metadata Encodings and Schemes relevant for B2FIND. - The 'granularity' of data collections is addressed in the section Aggregation Levels . - The section Metadata Quality tells what can be done to assure and improve the quality of the metadata to be sent - to and published in B2FIND in more detail.
+This section describes the actions a data provider must do in order to publish metadata in the EUDAT-B2FIND catalogue. There are a few mandatory Requirements and some best practice Recommendations . The second section of the document concentrates on Metadata Encodings and Schemes relevant for B2FIND. The 'granularity' of data collections is addressed in the section Aggregation Levels . +
There are three main steps which each data provider should complete :
These topics may have to be discussed iteratively between the domain experts and data managers at the data provider side and the B2FIND team at the service provider side.
@@ -44,10 +41,10 @@In order to join EUDAT-B2FIND the data providers must meet a few requirements : +
In order to join EUDAT-B2FIND, data providers must meet a these requirements :
In addition to these musts we express the following ‘best practice’ recommendations : +
In addition to the mandatory requirements we express also some best practice recommendations :
As stated already in the requirements above the provided metadata should be available as formatted records, which follow a defined schema. -We list and describe in the following only metadata formats and schemes that are already supported by B2FIND. - +
The harvested metadata should consist of records in standard format, which have semantics according to a defined schema. The following section contains metadata encodings and schemes which are already supported by B2FIND. In the future new formats may be added.
-In case you use standards which are not listed below, B2FIND maintenance should be contacted. We are open and keen to extend B2FIND to further formats and schemes. -
+In case a data provider uses an unsupported metadata standard and wishes to make the metadata available in that format, B2FIND maintenance should be contacted. EUDAT will extend B2FIND to further formats and schemes if there is sufficient demand for this.
-For a detailed and comprehensive overview of metadata specifications and standards, see: +For a detailed and comprehensive overview of metadata specifications and standards, see:
Metadata formats provide rules for coding (i.e., the machine readable representation), and the syntax (i.e., the marking and arrangement) of metadata and are required for browsers, search engines, and other programs to reliably process the metadata.
+ + +Metadata encodings provide rules for coding (i.e., the machine readable representation), and the syntax (i.e., the marking and arrangement) of metadata and are required for browsers, search engines, and other programs to reliably process the metadata.
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Before using any EUDAT services and resources each user must have read and agreed to understand and follow the EUDAT Services Terms of Use .
+By using the EUDAT B2FIND discovery service or publishing metadata in EUDAT B2FIND (hereafter “B2FIND”) catalogue you accept the following conditions of use: