Publishing Fine-Grained Standardized Metadata: Lessons Learned from Three Research Data Centers

Abstract

FAIRness of research data largely depends on the availability of rich and standardizedmetadata. While such metadata is commonly available at the study level, fine-grainedmetadata, especially for tabular scientific data, is often lacking (Wenzig/Han 2024). In aproject funded by KonsortSWD-NFDI4Society, three research data centers (SOEP, LIfBi,and DZHW) investigate what is required to convert existing metadata into astandardized format and publish it using a common protocol.