The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) was named after its inaugural meeting in 1995 in Dublin, Ohio. The organization maintains the DCMI Metadata Element Set, one of the most straightforward and widely adopted metadata schema. Initially intended for web resources, Dublin Core (DC) has proven its versatility in describing various physical and digital objects, including datasets.
Data Documentation
The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) is an international and open suite of standards expressed in XML for describing the research data produced primarily by surveys and other observational methods in the social, behavioral, and economic (SBE) sciences, health sciences, and official statistics. DDI documents and manages different stages in the research data lifecycle to facilitate the understanding, interpretation, and use of data by people, software, and computer networks.
EML is a community-maintained machine-readable metadata schema that provides a comprehensive vocabulary and XML markup syntax for documenting research data and related outputs. It is widely used in the Earth and Environmental Sciences and sibling disciplines to meet researchers' needs for sharing, preserving, discovering, and reusing data.
High-quality metadata ensures accuracy and interoperability across systems, and the adoption of metadata standards or schemas facilitates data sharing and collaboration, making data understandable and reusable.
Sharing well-documented code along with research data has become essential in today's data-driven computational science.
To ease data management and make your research more shareable and reproducible, we suggest you organize your project folder following this basic structure.
How to organize your README.