4.3.1 Electronic lab notebooks (ELNs) 4.3.2 Metadata and standards
A crucial step in RDM is to describe your data in a way that you and other researchers can understand, find, reuse and properly cite your data. Making your data FAIR means that you need to describe the data in a structured and detailed way. A structured description of the data is called metadata. It contains information about the subject and the creator of the data, such as why, how, where and when the data was generated and what the content of the data is. To avoid errors and to create compatible and interoperable metadata, specific metadata standards can be used [1] [2]
[1] ELIXIR converge. (2023f). Documentation and metadata. RDMkit. Available at: https://rdmkit.elixir-europe.org/metadata_management. Last accessed 2 October 2023.
[2] GFBio. (2023d). GFBio Training Materials: Data Life Cycle Fact-Sheet: Data Life Cycle: Describe. GFBio. Available at: https://www.gfbio.org/training/material/data-life-cycle/describe/. Last accessed 27 November 2023.