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Documentation and metadata

Some examples of data documentation:
• Laboratory notebooks and experimental protocols
• Questionnaires, codebooks, data dictionaries
• Software syntax and output files
• Information about equipment settings and instrument calibration
• Database schema
• Methodology reports
• Provenance information about sources of derived data

Add detailed descriptions for collections or files, for example, what is in a file, where did it come from, how could it be retrieved if needed, any existing problems and so on.

Metadata
• What contextual details are needed to make the data you capture or collect meaningful?
• How will you create or capture these metadata?
• What form will the metadata take?
• To what extent will metadata creation be automated?
• Which metadata standards will you use?

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PILOT - Writing a data management plan by Edina, University of Edinburgh modified by Marion Kelt, GCU is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Based on a work at http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantra/introduction.html