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While these standards exist and can help aid researchers in recording complete metadata, they are not universally required to be used. A best practice is to record the information that works for you and your collaborators. It’s better to have something than nothing at all.

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Common Metadata Fields

While each of the standards listed above are each unique and recommend recording different information, there are several commonalities. Listed below are a few of them that each metadata document could contain for a directory of research data.

• Creator/Author: <Researcher name/ORCiD>

• Subject/title: <Name of the data>

• Description: <Short paragraph describing the data and how they got to this state e.g., image taken, data processed, etc.>

• Contributor(s)/Collaborator(s): <Names of people associated with the project>

• Date: <use a format that is standardized across all the data e.g., YYYYMMDD>

• Original Format/File types: <.txt .csv .png .sql>

• Relation: <list any relating files/folders>

• Location: <e.g., Latitude & Longitude in decimal degrees>

• Rights: <funder grant number, or open source>

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Straight Code - No context

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