Specifications for the minimum information that should be collected about research data in order for it to be re-used.

A set of mandatory metadata that must be registered with the DataCite Metadata Store when minting a DOI persistent identifier for a dataset. The domain-agnostic properties were chosen for their ...

Practical guidance and examples to help you develop your Data Management Plan ...

Our Guides and Checklists are aimed at the those in research data management support roles.

A study-data oriented model that captures high-level information about scientific studies and the data that they produce, primarily tailored for the physical sciences. Used by the astronomy community ...

The OpenAIRE Guidelines are a suite of application profiles designed to allow research institutions to make their scholarly outputs visible through the OpenAIRE infrastructure. The profiles are based ...

The Data Package specification is a generic wrapper format for exchanging data, consisting of a folder containing data files and a descriptor file. A domain-agnostic list of core metadata properties ...

The Wisconsin Land INformation Clearinghouse review of metadata tools used for documenting geospatial data and serving geospatial metadata. It includes tools for CSDGM, ISO 19115, Dublin Core, and DIF ...

Planning for the future: developing and preserving information resources in the Arts and Humanities ...

A service to facilitate the publication of metadata in the AGRIS Repository; it conforms to the the AGRIS Application Profile, which draws from the Dublin Core and AgMES standards. A GeoNetwork web ...

An international standard for describing data from the social, behavioral, and economic sciences. Expressed in XML, the DDI metadata specification supports the entire research data life cycle.