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Metadata Management in an Interdisciplinary, Project-Specific Data Repository: A Case Study from Earth Sciences

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Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR 2016)

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This paper presents an approach to manage metadata of (research) data from the interdisciplinary, long-term, DFG-funded, collaborative research project ‘Patterns in Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere Systems: Monitoring, Modelling, and Data Assimilation’. In this framework, a data repository, the so-called TR32DB project database, was established in 2008 with the aim to manage the resulting data of the involved scientists. The data documentation with accurate, extensive metadata has been a key task. Consequently, a standardized, interoperable, multi-level metadata schema has been designed and implemented to ensure a proper documentation and publication of all project data (e.g. data, publication, reports), as well as to facilitate data search, exchange and re-use. A user-friendly web-interface was designed for a simple metadata input and search.

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I would like to thank all colleagues involved in the design and implementation of the TR32DB in recent years. In addition, I gratefully acknowledge financial support by the CRC/TR32 ‘Patterns in Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere Systems: Monitoring, Modelling, and Data Assimilation’ funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The author would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their suggestions and valuable comments on the manuscript.

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    Constanze Curdt

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  1. Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

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  3. Sapienza University of Rome , Rome, Italy

    Armando Stellato

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Curdt, C. (2016). Metadata Management in an Interdisciplinary, Project-Specific Data Repository: A Case Study from Earth Sciences. In: Garoufallou, E., Subirats Coll, I., Stellato, A., Greenberg, J. (eds) Metadata and Semantics Research. MTSR 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 672. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49157-8_31

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