Analysis and synthesis of metadata goals for scientific data

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1505-1520

  Willis, Craig ^a   Greenberg, Jane ^a   White, Hollie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

data; metadata

Indexed keywords

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; CONTENT ANALYSIS; DATA; DATA PUBLICATIONS; EXACT TESTS; FUNDING AGENCIES; NON-PARAMETRIC; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; POLICY CHANGES; RESEARCH DATA; SCIENTIFIC DATA; SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINE; STRONG CORRELATION; TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION; TECHNOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT; TEXTUAL CONTENT; WORK-FLOWS;

RESEARCH;

METADATA;

EID: 84864413745     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22683     Document Type: Article

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