[DDI-SRG] New ODaF paper on Metadata

[Pascal Heus]

Dear All:
We're please to announce the availability of a new ODaF paper on
"Metadata" recently published in the German Council for Social and
Economic Data Working Paper series.
all the best,
The ODaF Management Team

Public page:
http://www.ratswd.de/publ/workingpapers_09.php

Download:
http://www.ratswd.de/download/workingpapers2009/57_09.pdf

Metadata
Arofan Gregory, Pascal Heus, Jostein Ryssevik
Open Data Foundation (info at opendatafoundation.org)
March 2009

RatSWD
Rat für Sozial- und WirtschaftsDaten / German Council for Social and
Economic Data
Working Paper No. 57

Abstract
Metadata, or data about data, play a crucial rule in social sciences to
ensure that high quality documentation and community knowledge are
properly captured and surround the data across its entire life cycle,
from the early stages of production to secondary analysis by researchers
or use by policy makers and other key stakeholders. The paper provides
an overview of the social sciences metadata landscape, best practices
and related information technologies. It particularly focuses on two
specifications - the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) and the
Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange Standard (SDMX) - seen as central
to a global metadata management framework for social data and official
statistics. It also highlights current directions, outlines typical
integration challenges, and provides a set of high level recommendations
for producers, archives, researchers and sponsors in order to foster the
adoption of metadata standards and best practices in the years to come.

Keywords: social sciences, metadata, data, statistics, documentation,
data quality, XML, DDI, SDMX, archive, preservation, production, access,
dissemination, analysis
-- 
Pascal Heus (pheus at opendatafoundation.org)
Executive Manager, Open Data Foundation
http://www.opendatafoundation.org
Tel / Fax +1 650 331-7375 Ext 104
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