ICPSR Introduces New Metadata Documentation Portal
ANN ARBOR–Webinar attendees during ICPSR’s Love Data Week events got a look the new ICPSR Metadata Documentation Portal. The portal, for the first time, has made ICPSR’s metadata standards will be fully available to the public.
ICPSR’s rich and thorough metadata (i.e., information about our data collections that help others discover, understand, and use them) make it unique among data repositories. Metadata creation, enhancement, and quality review is a team effort and involves staff from across ICPSR.
The new Portal specifies rules and definitions for ICPSR's metadata practices and is intended to: (a) assist ICPSR staff with metadata entry, especially during curation; and (b) help ICPSR users – including data depositors and researchers accessing data – understand how to use and interpret our metadata.
The webinar highlights the features of the portal, how it can help you provide stronger metadata at deposit, and how it sets up the ICPSR and depositors for future metadata improvements.
Apr 11, 2024