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Metadata refers to the contextual information about a resource, such as a dataset. This metadata can come in many types. Perhaps the type of metadata you might be most familiar with is the one generic metadata often collected from data repositories when you make your data available repositories (e.g., Zenodo) (see the example of how zenodo describes the resources on its repository). This generic metadata includes details about what the resource is about (e.g., data from patient health records), who created it (e.g., a research team at Radboudumc) and when it was collected (e.g., 2023). Typically, it also discloses information about the possible uses of the resource (e.g., applicable licensing) and access restrictions (e.g., available for public use/restricted access). There are other types of metadata, below a non-exhaustive list:
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