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Dataverse North Metadata Best Practices Guide Cooper, Alexandra; Gagnon, Martine; Leahey, Amber; Paquette-Bigras, Ève; Perrier, Laure; Steeleworthy, Michael; Taylor, Sally

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The first version of the guide provides users with best practices for creating citation metadata in Dataverse. The guide provides definitions of metadata fields and clarification where needed; distinguishes between required, recommended and optional fields; and illustrates the use of each field with an example. Future editions will provide guidance for disciplinary metadata blocks in Dataverse, namely, Social Sciences and Humanities, Geospatial, Life Sciences, and Astronomy & Astrophysics Metadata.

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Title
Dataverse North Metadata Best Practices Guide
Creator
Cooper, Alexandra; Gagnon, Martine; Leahey, Amber; Paquette-Bigras, Ève; Perrier, Laure; Steeleworthy, Michael; Taylor, Sally
Date Issued
2019-04
Description
The first version of the guide provides users with best practices for creating citation metadata in Dataverse. The guide provides definitions of metadata fields and clarification where needed; distinguishes between required, recommended and optional fields; and illustrates the use of each field with an example. Future editions will provide guidance for disciplinary metadata blocks in Dataverse, namely, Social Sciences and Humanities, Geospatial, Life Sciences, and Astronomy & Astrophysics Metadata.
Subject
Dataverse; Metadata
Genre
Other
Type
Text
Language
eng
Date Available
2019-12-04
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0386750
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/72556
Affiliation
Library, UBC; Non UBC
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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DSpace

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