Re: [rda-metadata-ig] Minimal metadata concept

Gary, all -
I'm in the 'horses for courses' camp. If the end-user wants a human-readable list of datasets likely to be of use then minimal metadata (DC type) is fine. If the end-user wishes to autonomically have a homogeneous answer from multiple heterogeneous datasets then metadata with formal syntax and declared semantics (handling multilinguality also) is required. This is far from minimal (and to my knowledge only achieved in restricted domains but others may know better).
The question arises 'is it worth providing more than minimal metadata'? If only minimal metadata is provided the end-user has to do a lot of manual work to achieve homogeneous access across heterogeneous datasets. If the provider inputs/stores more than minimal metadata then s/he has a lot of work (hopefully reduced by re-utilising existing metadata and utilising text/data mining of the data) but the end-user has an 'easy ride'.
Best
Keith
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To: Gary Berg-Cross; Metadata IG
Subject: [rda-metadata-ig] Re: [rda-metadata-ig] Minimal metadata concept
I am definitely in the it's a good idea camp on this question, and take it a little further to recommend some pretty specific best practices for how that minimum metadata should be encoded
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To: "Metadata IG" <***@***.***-groups.org>
Subject: [rda-metadata-ig] Minimal metadata concept
Date: Sat, Feb 28, 2015 8:19 AM
One of the issues discussed at a recent RDA outreach workshop was how people felt about "minimal metadata."
Some cautioned that it is potentially a bad idea, while a pluratity seemed in favor of it and could point to good outcomes using .
An example provided at the workshop was that of the Dataset Descriptions: HCLS Community Profile discussed by Michel Dumontier (Stanford). The idea here is to:
Develop a guidance note for reusing existing vocabularies to describe datasets with RDF - Mandatory, recommended, optional descriptors - Identifiers - Versioning - Attribution - Provenance - Content summarization * Recommend vocabulary-linked attributes and value sets
see http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/hcls/notes/hcls-dataset/
We were perhaps more uniform on the idea expressed by NIST's Bob Hanisch that maximum MD causes a problem since people won't "use it."
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All,
In order to ensure that the metadata is encoded in an interoperable fashion (e. g. for cross-repository search and federation) we could consider implementing an RDF application profile. A team around Antoine Isaac and Karen Coyle are currently working on this within the Dublin Core community [1].
[1] http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php?title=RDF-Application-Profiles
Best,
Lars
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To: srichardUSGIN; Gary Berg-Cross; Metadata IG
Subject: Re: [rda-metadata-ig] Re: [rda-metadata-ig] Minimal metadata concept
Gary, all –
I’m in the ‘horses for courses’ camp. If the end-user wants a human-readable list of datasets likely to be of use then minimal metadata (DC type) is fine. If the end-user wishes to autonomically have a homogeneous answer from multiple heterogeneous datasets then metadata with formal syntax and declared semantics (handling multilinguality also) is required. This is far from minimal (and to my knowledge only achieved in restricted domains but others may know better).
The question arises ‘is it worth providing more than minimal metadata’? If only minimal metadata is provided the end-user has to do a lot of manual work to achieve homogeneous access across heterogeneous datasets. If the provider inputs/stores more than minimal metadata then s/he has a lot of work (hopefully reduced by re-utilising existing metadata and utilising text/data mining of the data) but the end-user has an ‘easy ride’.
Best
Keith
Keith G Jeffery Consultants
Prof Keith G Jeffery
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Past Vice President VLDB www.vldb.org
Fellow (CITP, CEng) BCS www.bcs.org
Co-chair RDA MIG https://rd-alliance.org/internal-groups/metadata-ig.html
Co-chair RDA MSDWG https://rd-alliance.org/working-groups/metadata-standards-directory-work...
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Sent: 01 March 2015 22:42
To: Gary Berg-Cross; Metadata IG
Subject: [rda-metadata-ig] Re: [rda-metadata-ig] Minimal metadata concept
I am definitely in the it's a good idea camp on this question, and take it a little further to recommend some pretty specific best practices for how that minimum metadata should be encoded
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From: "Gary" <***@***.***>
To: "Metadata IG" <***@***.***-groups.org>
Subject: [rda-metadata-ig] Minimal metadata concept
Date: Sat, Feb 28, 2015 8:19 AM
One of the issues discussed at a recent RDA outreach workshop was how people felt about "minimal metadata."
Some cautioned that it is potentially a bad idea, while a pluratity seemed in favor of it and could point to good outcomes using .
An example provided at the workshop was that of the Dataset Descriptions: HCLS Community Profile discussed by Michel Dumontier (Stanford). The idea here is to:
Develop a guidance note for reusing existing vocabularies to describe datasets with RDF – Mandatory, recommended, optional descriptors – Identifiers – Versioning – Attribution – Provenance – Content summarization • Recommend vocabulary-linked attributes and value sets
see http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/hcls/notes/hcls-dataset/
We were perhaps more uniform on the idea expressed by NIST's Bob Hanisch that maximum MD causes a problem since people won't "use it."
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All,
In order to ensure that the metadata is encoded in an interoperable fashion (e. g. for cross-repository search and federation) we could consider implementing an RDF application profile. A team around Antoine Isaac and Karen Coyle are currently working on this within the Dublin Core community [1].
[1] http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php?title=RDF-Application-Profiles
Best,
Lars
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Sent: Monday, March 02, 2015 10:49 AM
To: srichardUSGIN; Gary Berg-Cross; Metadata IG
Subject: Re: [rda-metadata-ig] Re: [rda-metadata-ig] Minimal metadata concept
Gary, all –
I’m in the ‘horses for courses’ camp. If the end-user wants a human-readable list of datasets likely to be of use then minimal metadata (DC type) is fine. If the end-user wishes to autonomically have a homogeneous answer from multiple heterogeneous datasets then metadata with formal syntax and declared semantics (handling multilinguality also) is required. This is far from minimal (and to my knowledge only achieved in restricted domains but others may know better).
The question arises ‘is it worth providing more than minimal metadata’? If only minimal metadata is provided the end-user has to do a lot of manual work to achieve homogeneous access across heterogeneous datasets. If the provider inputs/stores more than minimal metadata then s/he has a lot of work (hopefully reduced by re-utilising existing metadata and utilising text/data mining of the data) but the end-user has an ‘easy ride’.
Best
Keith
Keith G Jeffery Consultants
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Past Vice President VLDB www.vldb.org
Fellow (CITP, CEng) BCS www.bcs.org
Co-chair RDA MIG https://rd-alliance.org/internal-groups/metadata-ig.html
Co-chair RDA MSDWG https://rd-alliance.org/working-groups/metadata-standards-directory-work...
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Sent: 01 March 2015 22:42
To: Gary Berg-Cross; Metadata IG
Subject: [rda-metadata-ig] Re: [rda-metadata-ig] Minimal metadata concept
I am definitely in the it's a good idea camp on this question, and take it a little further to recommend some pretty specific best practices for how that minimum metadata should be encoded
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From: "Gary" <***@***.***>
To: "Metadata IG" <***@***.***-groups.org>
Subject: [rda-metadata-ig] Minimal metadata concept
Date: Sat, Feb 28, 2015 8:19 AM
One of the issues discussed at a recent RDA outreach workshop was how people felt about "minimal metadata."
Some cautioned that it is potentially a bad idea, while a pluratity seemed in favor of it and could point to good outcomes using .
An example provided at the workshop was that of the Dataset Descriptions: HCLS Community Profile discussed by Michel Dumontier (Stanford). The idea here is to:
Develop a guidance note for reusing existing vocabularies to describe datasets with RDF – Mandatory, recommended, optional descriptors – Identifiers – Versioning – Attribution – Provenance – Content summarization • Recommend vocabulary-linked attributes and value sets
see http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/hcls/notes/hcls-dataset/
We were perhaps more uniform on the idea expressed by NIST's Bob Hanisch that maximum MD causes a problem since people won't "use it."
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Absolutely...! Thanks Lars for jumping in.
Best wishes, jane
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To: ***@***.***; srichardUSGIN; Gary Berg-Cross; Metadata IG
Subject: Re: [rda-metadata-ig] Re: [rda-metadata-ig] Minimal metadata concept
All,
In order to ensure that the metadata is encoded in an interoperable fashion (e. g. for cross-repository search and federation) we could consider implementing an RDF application profile. A team around Antoine Isaac and Karen Coyle are currently working on this within the Dublin Core community [1].
[1] http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php?title=RDF-Application-Profiles
Best,
Lars
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To: srichardUSGIN; Gary Berg-Cross; Metadata IG
Subject: Re: [rda-metadata-ig] Re: [rda-metadata-ig] Minimal metadata concept
Gary, all -
I'm in the 'horses for courses' camp. If the end-user wants a human-readable list of datasets likely to be of use then minimal metadata (DC type) is fine. If the end-user wishes to autonomically have a homogeneous answer from multiple heterogeneous datasets then metadata with formal syntax and declared semantics (handling multilinguality also) is required. This is far from minimal (and to my knowledge only achieved in restricted domains but others may know better).
The question arises 'is it worth providing more than minimal metadata'? If only minimal metadata is provided the end-user has to do a lot of manual work to achieve homogeneous access across heterogeneous datasets. If the provider inputs/stores more than minimal metadata then s/he has a lot of work (hopefully reduced by re-utilising existing metadata and utilising text/data mining of the data) but the end-user has an 'easy ride'.
Best
Keith
Keith G Jeffery Consultants
Prof Keith G Jeffery
E: ***@***.***
T: +44 7768 446088
S: keithgjeffery
Past President ERCIM www.ercim.eu (***@***.***)
Past President euroCRIS www.eurocris.org
Past Vice President VLDB www.vldb.org
Fellow (CITP, CEng) BCS www.bcs.org
Co-chair RDA MIG https://rd-alliance.org/internal-groups/metadata-ig.html
Co-chair RDA MSDWG https://rd-alliance.org/working-groups/metadata-standards-directory-work...
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Sent: 01 March 2015 22:42
To: Gary Berg-Cross; Metadata IG
Subject: [rda-metadata-ig] Re: [rda-metadata-ig] Minimal metadata concept
I am definitely in the it's a good idea camp on this question, and take it a little further to recommend some pretty specific best practices for how that minimum metadata should be encoded
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From: "Gary" <***@***.***>
To: "Metadata IG" <***@***.***-groups.org>
Subject: [rda-metadata-ig] Minimal metadata concept
Date: Sat, Feb 28, 2015 8:19 AM
One of the issues discussed at a recent RDA outreach workshop was how people felt about "minimal metadata."
Some cautioned that it is potentially a bad idea, while a pluratity seemed in favor of it and could point to good outcomes using .
An example provided at the workshop was that of the Dataset Descriptions: HCLS Community Profile discussed by Michel Dumontier (Stanford). The idea here is to:
Develop a guidance note for reusing existing vocabularies to describe datasets with RDF - Mandatory, recommended, optional descriptors - Identifiers - Versioning - Attribution - Provenance - Content summarization * Recommend vocabulary-linked attributes and value sets
see http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/hcls/notes/hcls-dataset/
We were perhaps more uniform on the idea expressed by NIST's Bob Hanisch that maximum MD causes a problem since people won't "use it."
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Absolutely...! Thanks Lars for jumping in.
Best wishes, jane
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To: ***@***.***; srichardUSGIN; Gary Berg-Cross; Metadata IG
Subject: Re: [rda-metadata-ig] Re: [rda-metadata-ig] Minimal metadata concept
All,
In order to ensure that the metadata is encoded in an interoperable fashion (e. g. for cross-repository search and federation) we could consider implementing an RDF application profile. A team around Antoine Isaac and Karen Coyle are currently working on this within the Dublin Core community [1].
[1] http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php?title=RDF-Application-Profiles
Best,
Lars
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Sent: Monday, March 02, 2015 10:49 AM
To: srichardUSGIN; Gary Berg-Cross; Metadata IG
Subject: Re: [rda-metadata-ig] Re: [rda-metadata-ig] Minimal metadata concept
Gary, all -
I'm in the 'horses for courses' camp. If the end-user wants a human-readable list of datasets likely to be of use then minimal metadata (DC type) is fine. If the end-user wishes to autonomically have a homogeneous answer from multiple heterogeneous datasets then metadata with formal syntax and declared semantics (handling multilinguality also) is required. This is far from minimal (and to my knowledge only achieved in restricted domains but others may know better).
The question arises 'is it worth providing more than minimal metadata'? If only minimal metadata is provided the end-user has to do a lot of manual work to achieve homogeneous access across heterogeneous datasets. If the provider inputs/stores more than minimal metadata then s/he has a lot of work (hopefully reduced by re-utilising existing metadata and utilising text/data mining of the data) but the end-user has an 'easy ride'.
Best
Keith
Keith G Jeffery Consultants
Prof Keith G Jeffery
E: ***@***.***
T: +44 7768 446088
S: keithgjeffery
Past President ERCIM www.ercim.eu (***@***.***)
Past President euroCRIS www.eurocris.org
Past Vice President VLDB www.vldb.org
Fellow (CITP, CEng) BCS www.bcs.org
Co-chair RDA MIG https://rd-alliance.org/internal-groups/metadata-ig.html
Co-chair RDA MSDWG https://rd-alliance.org/working-groups/metadata-standards-directory-work...
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Sent: 01 March 2015 22:42
To: Gary Berg-Cross; Metadata IG
Subject: [rda-metadata-ig] Re: [rda-metadata-ig] Minimal metadata concept
I am definitely in the it's a good idea camp on this question, and take it a little further to recommend some pretty specific best practices for how that minimum metadata should be encoded
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From: "Gary" <***@***.***>
To: "Metadata IG" <***@***.***-groups.org>
Subject: [rda-metadata-ig] Minimal metadata concept
Date: Sat, Feb 28, 2015 8:19 AM
One of the issues discussed at a recent RDA outreach workshop was how people felt about "minimal metadata."
Some cautioned that it is potentially a bad idea, while a pluratity seemed in favor of it and could point to good outcomes using .
An example provided at the workshop was that of the Dataset Descriptions: HCLS Community Profile discussed by Michel Dumontier (Stanford). The idea here is to:
Develop a guidance note for reusing existing vocabularies to describe datasets with RDF - Mandatory, recommended, optional descriptors - Identifiers - Versioning - Attribution - Provenance - Content summarization * Recommend vocabulary-linked attributes and value sets
see http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/hcls/notes/hcls-dataset/
We were perhaps more uniform on the idea expressed by NIST's Bob Hanisch that maximum MD causes a problem since people won't "use it."
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Absolutely...! Thanks Lars for jumping in.
Best wishes, jane
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Sent: Monday, March 02, 2015 7:15 AM
To: ***@***.***; srichardUSGIN; Gary Berg-Cross; Metadata IG
Subject: Re: [rda-metadata-ig] Re: [rda-metadata-ig] Minimal metadata concept
All,
In order to ensure that the metadata is encoded in an interoperable fashion (e. g. for cross-repository search and federation) we could consider implementing an RDF application profile. A team around Antoine Isaac and Karen Coyle are currently working on this within the Dublin Core community [1].
[1] http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php?title=RDF-Application-Profiles
Best,
Lars
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Sent: Monday, March 02, 2015 10:49 AM
To: srichardUSGIN; Gary Berg-Cross; Metadata IG
Subject: Re: [rda-metadata-ig] Re: [rda-metadata-ig] Minimal metadata concept
Gary, all -
I'm in the 'horses for courses' camp. If the end-user wants a human-readable list of datasets likely to be of use then minimal metadata (DC type) is fine. If the end-user wishes to autonomically have a homogeneous answer from multiple heterogeneous datasets then metadata with formal syntax and declared semantics (handling multilinguality also) is required. This is far from minimal (and to my knowledge only achieved in restricted domains but others may know better).
The question arises 'is it worth providing more than minimal metadata'? If only minimal metadata is provided the end-user has to do a lot of manual work to achieve homogeneous access across heterogeneous datasets. If the provider inputs/stores more than minimal metadata then s/he has a lot of work (hopefully reduced by re-utilising existing metadata and utilising text/data mining of the data) but the end-user has an 'easy ride'.
Best
Keith
Keith G Jeffery Consultants
Prof Keith G Jeffery
E: ***@***.***
T: +44 7768 446088
S: keithgjeffery
Past President ERCIM www.ercim.eu (***@***.***)
Past President euroCRIS www.eurocris.org
Past Vice President VLDB www.vldb.org
Fellow (CITP, CEng) BCS www.bcs.org
Co-chair RDA MIG https://rd-alliance.org/internal-groups/metadata-ig.html
Co-chair RDA MSDWG https://rd-alliance.org/working-groups/metadata-standards-directory-work...
Co-chair RDA DICIG https://rd-alliance.org/internal-groups/data-context-ig.html
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Sent: 01 March 2015 22:42
To: Gary Berg-Cross; Metadata IG
Subject: [rda-metadata-ig] Re: [rda-metadata-ig] Minimal metadata concept
I am definitely in the it's a good idea camp on this question, and take it a little further to recommend some pretty specific best practices for how that minimum metadata should be encoded
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From: "Gary" <***@***.***>
To: "Metadata IG" <***@***.***-groups.org>
Subject: [rda-metadata-ig] Minimal metadata concept
Date: Sat, Feb 28, 2015 8:19 AM
One of the issues discussed at a recent RDA outreach workshop was how people felt about "minimal metadata."
Some cautioned that it is potentially a bad idea, while a pluratity seemed in favor of it and could point to good outcomes using .
An example provided at the workshop was that of the Dataset Descriptions: HCLS Community Profile discussed by Michel Dumontier (Stanford). The idea here is to:
Develop a guidance note for reusing existing vocabularies to describe datasets with RDF - Mandatory, recommended, optional descriptors - Identifiers - Versioning - Attribution - Provenance - Content summarization * Recommend vocabulary-linked attributes and value sets
see http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/hcls/notes/hcls-dataset/
We were perhaps more uniform on the idea expressed by NIST's Bob Hanisch that maximum MD causes a problem since people won't "use it."
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