Metadata

How to prepare your files for deposit in the institutional repository, INDIGO. Metadata prep and step by step guides are included in the LibGuide.

ICPSR metadata documentation portal

Submission requirements outlined by Dryad, including metadata requirements

Actions require a metadata file that uses YAML syntax

Zenodo general policies that address metadata

This repository provides a checklist of information that should be included in a complete data submission, and details guidelines to identify genes, alleles, genotypes, probes, and antibodies used.

The GEOROC Data Repository is a new research data repository in the Earth Sciences domain with a specific focus on geochemical data. The following page outlines their policies, including metadata

OSF provides metadata templates for submission

Common Data Elements (CDEs) are data elements (or variables) that are defined and used the same way across multiple studies, to standardize the way data is collected.

Information is supplied by completing all fields of a metadata template spreadsheet. Guidelines on the content of each field are provided within the spreadsheet.

On this page, the NIAID Data Ecosystem Discovery Portal provide a completeness score hat assesses the extent to which the metadata associated with a dataset is present.

dbGaP study submission guide (as of June 2024)

The National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) Dataset Metadata Model (DATMM) is a linked data scheme designed to support a national catalog of biomedical datasets

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), in consultation with the Wellcome Trust and other funders of mental health research, has identified a minimal list of data collection instruments that would be ideal for use by all mental health researchers conducting clinical research to facilitate and harmonize mental health data collection

The following video provides metadata and data standards for NIDDK research

Data submission guidelines for NSF's Arctic Data Center

GREI repositories collaborate to recommend metadata standards to support NIH’s data management and sharing policy and ensure FAIR metadata for data sharing, discovery, and reuse.