Technical Tools

Creating metadataData about data. Metadata provides a context for research findings, ideally in a machine-readable format. It enables discovery of data via an electronic interface, and correct use and attribution of findings. Related Guide can be a challenging task. Fortunately there are a variety of tools to assist with such tasks as creating metadata, editing metadata, and crosswalking between different standards and ontologiesA type of relational controlled vocabulary, which provides for categories, relationships, rules and axioms among metadata elements. Typically a hierarchy of classes and terms, an ontology is a machine-readable way of relating metadata terminology. Related Guide. In the coming months, the MMIMarine Metadata Interoperability guides group will be surveying and writing about existing metadata-related tools. If you would like to help us with this work, please let us know.

For more information on this new initiative, please see the MMI DIVE webpage.