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Why is this step important
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To be able to
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Health-RI is in the process of defining a metadata scheme for onboarding in the Health-RI metadata portal. To allow for onboarding of a dataset, the minimal metadata set must be provided. It is therefore essential that you assess whether this minimal set is collected/available or whether additional metadata needs to be collected.
Beneficial for You you and Your your team: Having comprehensive and detailed metadata ensures that anyone, including yourself, can understand and work on the data effectively even when some time as passed since collection. This is an example of good data management practices and contributes to data remaining usable and meaningful over time.
Improves the quality of your data: Good metadata should describe the data accurately and unambiguously, which in turn improves the overall quality of the data and enhances transparency and reproducibility. This enables others to verify results and build upon them.
Helps with data discovery: Complete metadata improves the ability for you and your team to locate and retrieve data quickly. Additionally, if this metadata is published, it can more easily boost reuse of data, lead to collaborations with others.Promotes good data management practices: ??new collaborations and enhance recognition of existing work.
Complies with funders’ and journals’ requirements: Many funding agencies and publishers now require metadata to be published to increase the efficiency and visibility of the research they support.
How to
step 1: where is metadata from your research already being collected (ensure it’s still up to date and represents still your project accurately)
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