What is meant by documentation and metadata?

What is meant by documentation and metadata?


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If you return to your data in a month, or a year, or several years’ time, will you be able to understand your data and re-use it? Would another research be able to? Documentation and metadata should help with the long term usability of your data.

Metadata is structured information about the data. A repository may ask you, for example, to supply information in dedicated fields about your work (project title, creator) or any other information that would be required to allow a complete understanding of the data and the context within which it was created.

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  • Last Updated Aug 23, 2024
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  • Answered By Kerry Gregory

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