Documentation and metadata
Your Data Management Plan (DMP) should provide answers to the following questions:
- How will documentation and metadata be captured and stored?
- How could the documentation/metadata be used by future researchers?
The table below shows considerations you should make when writing your answer with an example answer to help guide your writing.
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Question: How will documentation and metadata be captured and stored? |
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Considerations: What metadata is being made? (e.g. date of creation, version history, author name, file format, number of data, location of data, research method) What documentation will you create that explain your data set? (e.g. a ‘readme’ file) |
| Example answer: - |
| Question: How could the documentation/metadata be used by future researchers? |
| Considerations: How the documentation and metadata aid a hypothetical new researcher when accessing your dataset |
| Example answer: - |