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Introduction to Data Management Practices - Metadata
The aim of this lesson to make you understand the importance of metadata, and how it affects “FAIRness”. Also to understand what a metadata standard is, as well as what ontologies are and how they can be found, and used, to describe your data.
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International
Keywords: CONVERGE, Controlled vocabularies, Data management, FAIR, data organisation, metadata, ontologies
Target audience: Researcher in life sciences, PhD candidates, Scientists
Resource type: e-learning, lessons
Status: Active
Prerequisites:
None
Learning objectives:
By the end of this lesson you will:
Understand why you need to describe your data with metadata
Understand basic characteristics of controlled vocabularies and ontologies
Know what a metadata standard is
Understand how to document what standards you use for your data
Know how to find suitable ontologies to use to describe your data
Contributors: Elin Kronander, Erik Hedman, Markus Englund, Mattias Strömberg, Stephan Nylinder, Wolmar Nyberg Åkerström, Yvonne Kallberg
Scientific topics: Data management, FAIR data
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