10.24344/kit_post_51272_1
Standardizing a Standard: Why and how a Best Practice Guide for the DataCite Metadata Schema was created
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Kümmet, Sonja
Sonja
Kümmet
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8954-0200
Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Lücke, Stephan
Stephan
Lücke
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5853-1918
http://d-nb.info/gnd/1167274636
IT-Gruppe Geisteswissenschaften (ITG), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Schulz, Julian
Julian
Schulz
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4374-2680
Referent am Bayerischen Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst
Spenger, Martin
Martin
Spenger
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8841-5985
http://d-nb.info/gnd/1207001511
Universitätsbibliothek, LMU München
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Weber, Tobias
Tobias
Weber
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7230-1932
Text/article
IT-Gruppe Geisteswissenschaften (ITG), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
2020
CC BY-SA 4.0
en
10.24344/kit
Korpus im Text, Serie A
KiT-A 51272
Article
10.24344/kit
Korpus im Text (KiT)
Krefeld, Thomas
Thomas
Krefeld
Lücke, Stephan
Stephan
Lücke
Riepl, Christian
Christian
Riepl
DataCite
digital humanities
Digitale Geisteswissenschaften
DH
humanités numériques
Digital Humanities
DH
umanistica digitale
Data processing and computer science
In order to promote the FAIRness of research data, the use of a widespread metadata schema is recommended to describe the data. The DataCite Metadata Schema published by the consortium of the same name has meanwhile established itself as a model used worldwide. However, the evaluation of DataCite XML files created by project managers at the IT Group Humanities of the LMU Munich and at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre revealed the need to extend the standard. Against this background, representatives of data creators, data curators and data aggregators participated in the development of a best practice guide for DataCite in order to increase the interoperability of (meta-)data through a stronger standardization. This paper describes the development process towards the now published Best Practice Guide, discusses the reasons for its development, and presents the main features of the guide and the potential of its future application.
2020-01-20