Metadata Game Changers’ Offerings
Our services support repository leadership and staff as they enhance their data infrastructure through metadata analysis, coaching, facilitation, and consulting. Our offerings are based on our experience working with many repository communities and many metadata dialects.
Consulting: We use mixed methods and consult on projects of all sizes. Ted primarily consults on metadata in any dialect, repository analysis, and improvement. Erin primarily consults on change management across the scientific community (e.g., teams migrating to the Cloud, operationalizing FAIR or CARE). We have worked with federal governments, universities, nonprofits, and other for-profits.
Grants: We collaborate as consultants, PIs, and co-Is in grant-funded activities. Contact Ted or Erin directly if you want to collaborate on a grant. Recent grants from NSF include FAIR Island EAGER (co-I), Sampling Nature RCN (consultant), BRIDGE (PI), and INFORMATE (PI).
Facilitation: We design and run in-person and online convenings for groups large and small across scientific domains related to data management. If you are interested in having us support your next workshop, send Erin an email.
Connect with us via the links below.
We can customize a statement of work for your organization and invoice through standard mechanisms. Contact us if you want to combine or customize any of these services.
FAIR Repository Insights (DataCite Metadata)
FAIR Repository Insights (DataCite Metadata)
FAIR repository insights provide a new way of understanding the completeness of your DataCite metadata records. The insight analysis includes about 60 fields that are grouped into four use cases:
Findable: Text—Documentation concepts used to support many types of data discovery, i.e., text, spatial/temporal, author, publisher, etc.
Findable: Identifiers—Documentation concepts that provide identifiers and references for discovery concepts.
AIR: Connections—Documentation concepts for dataset interoperability and connections for resource documentation, understanding, and trust building.
AIR: Contacts—Documentation concepts for contacts who can answer questions not addressed in the metadata or other documentation.
What’s included: Each insight analysis includes a customized report, sent within ten business days, and a one-hour meeting to discuss the results and identify opportunities for improvement.
Discounts are available for groups of repositories managed by a single organization and repository consortia. Contact Ted.
Note: This offer includes DataCite metadata repositories with fewer than 7,500 records or samples of 7,500 records from larger repositories.