Research Data Management (old April 2019): Disciplinary Metadata

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Who's Who in the Research Engagement Team

Working with data

• Sensitive Data
• Describing Data (Metadata)
• File Naming
• Version Control
• Disciplinary Metadata
• Citing datasets
• Useful Links

Research Support

The format of research data varies between disciplines:

The Digital Curation Centre has an excellent guide to disciplinary metadata  and tools for implementation. This includes examples of good practice.

Other useful resources:

• Archaeology Data Service
• eCrystals (Southampton Chemical Crystallography Group and the EPSRC UK National Crystallography Service)
• MRC Data Support Service
• Marine Environmental data and information
• National Biodiversity Network
• National Geoscience Data Centre
• NERC Data Centre
• Oxford Text Archive
• Visual Arts Data Service