Description
From Local Datasets to Interoperable Resources: Metadata, Vocabularies and Domain-Specific Standards
Purpose: This workshop will introduce the technical principles for organising metadata standards and controlled vocabularies in environmental research. It will present how data families can be described through appropriate metadata profiles, semantic resources and existing community standards, supporting data harmonisation, interoperability and reuse across facilities, platforms and domains.
Format: The session will consist of a technical presentation followed by Q&A. It will illustrate how different types of data — including geospatial, environmental, soil, flux, genomic, experimental management, phenotyping and modelling data — can be linked to suitable standards and vocabularies, and how these choices can support infrastructure-level data harmonisation.
Expected outcomes: Participants will gain a clearer understanding of how metadata standards and vocabularies make data scientifically understandable, interoperable and reusable. The session will provide a technical basis for mapping data families to relevant standards and identifying domain-specific metadata needs.