Metadata activities in Biology

Inigo San Gil; Vivian Hutchison; Mike Frame; Giri Palanisamy

doi:10.1080/19386389.2010.506389

Metadata activities in Biology

Inigo San Gil, Vivian Hutchison, Mike Frame, Giri Palanisamy

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Abstract

The National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) has advanced the ability of biological sciences to standardize, share, integrate, and synthesize data by making the metadata program a core of its activities. A series of crosswalks for the main biological metadata specifications enable data providers and international clearinghouses to aggregate and disseminate tens of thousands of metadata records describing petabytes of data records and allow for interoperability. These efforts were accomplished by forming strategic partnerships with key research organizations in the biological and ecological sciences. This paper provides an overview of metadata initiatives undertaken by NBII and the Long Term Ecological Research Network. New efforts to provide better metadata creation and curation tools based on content management systems with semantic mediation for data discovery are presented.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	99-118
Number of pages	20
Journal	Journal of Library Metadata
Volume	10
Issue number	2-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/19386389.2010.506389
State	Published - 2010

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DataONE,18 the Observational Network for Earth, is another large-scale NSF project that relies on functional metadata. DataONE is a virtual data center for biology, ecology, and the environmental sciences. The program uses metadata, and the data libraries that parse metadata, to harvest data into a long-term repository network. Quality, content-rich metadata will provide the functionality to allow work flows to ingest data into a distributed network of repositories for long-term access and reuse. DataONE is jointly supported by LTER and the USGS NBII Programs. Inigo San Gil acknowledges the support of the National Biological Information Infrastructure and Long Term Ecological Research Cooperative Agreement. Cross-disciplinary (genomics & ecology) metadata initiatives are sponsored through the support of a National Science Foundation Research Coordination Network Program (RCN4GSC).

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LTER
National Science Foundation	RCN4GSC
U.S. Geological Survey

Keywords

Content management system
Data management
Metadata
Metadata creation
Metadata curation
Metadata quality control

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