Submitted by carynn on Fri, 02/08/2008 - 13:41
Submitted by luisBer on Tue, 12/04/2007 - 04:51
To create quality metadata, it is essential to include all the descriptive information necessary to locate, understand, and use a data set. You can save time and resources by leveraging the work and tools developed by others. Write your metadata in a standard fashion and adhere to the following rules and considerations (based on excerpts from the NOAA Coastal Services Metadata Workshop Materials).
Submitted by graybeal on Mon, 11/22/2010 - 13:50
Metadata are used to describe data or information. In environmental sciences like oceanography, metadata describe the information that scientists collect and informs users about the characteristics and history of a data set or data item—including methodological, temporal and spatial information.
The word metadata is sometimes used in a singular form (metadata is). We use the plural (metadata are). Both are in common usage, though in the sciences it’s typically used in the plural.