## Module 3: Contextual Details ## This module covers contextual details to make data meaningful (or metadata), what metadata is, why it is important, what goes into creating metadata, and talk a little about how it is created and shared. ### Learning Objectives ### 1. Explain what metadata is 2. Explain why metadata is important 3. Identify and describe best practices related to metadata creation 4. Describe some common metadata elements 5. Plan an approach to creating metadata for a project ### Readings and Resources ### **Required** Brainerd, Elizabeth L., Richard W. Blob, Tyson L. Hedrick, Andrew T. Creamer, and Ulrike K. Müller. 2017. “Data Management Rubric for Video Data in Organismal Biology.” Integrative and Comparative Biology 57(1): 33-47. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icx060 Ferguson, Jen. 2012. “Lurking in the Lab: Analysis of Data from Molecular Biology Laboratory Instruments.” Journal of eScience Librarianship 1(3): e1019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.2012.1019 Hogrefe, K., Stocks, K. 2011. “The Importance of Metadata Standards.” In The MMI Guides: Navigating the World of Marine Metadata. Page 20. http://uop.whoi.edu/techdocs/presentations/MMI_Guides.pdf K Data Service. Version control and authenticity https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/manage-data/format/versioning **Supplemental** Vardigan, Mary, Pascal Heus, and Wendy Thomas. 2008. “Data Documentation Initiative: Toward a Standard for the Social Sciences.Links to an external site.” International Journal of Digital Curation 3(1): 107-113. http://dx.doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v3i1.45 Borgman, Christine L. 2015. Big data, little data, no data: Scholarship in the networked world. Mit Press. ISBN: 9780262028561 https://mitpress.mit.edu/big-data-little-data-no-data Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Wiki. User Guide http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/User_Guide Taxonomic Databases Working Group (TDWG). Darwin Core Terms: A quick reference guide http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/index.htm%20