Glossary¶
- Scientist(s) who generated the scientific data and its scientific metadata in the dataset; frequently the uploader of the dataset.
- Bibliographic metadata
- See Metadata, bibliographic
- Contact person
- Real-life person(s) who handle requests of others to access the scientific data in the dataset
- Data Registry
A special type of data repository, storing bibliographic and scientific metadata, but not the data itself. Instead, the data is only linked to from metadata fields.
Hybrid forms are possible. Jülich DATA allows for depositing data, but focus is on registry.
- Dataset
- A dataset is a container for your data, documentation, code and the metadata describing it. A citeable DOI is assigned to each dataset, so choose wisely about the granularity of your datasets.
- Dataverse
- A dataverse is a container for datasets (research data, code, documentation and metadata) and other dataverses. You might think of it as a folder analogy, which might contain other folders or data. It can be setup for individual researchers, departments, journals, organizations, experiments and many more use cases.
- DDM
- See Decentralized Data Manager.
- Decentralized Data Manager
A “decentralized data manager” is the contact person (or role) for research data management in an organizational unit (like an institute) and for the FZJ, e.g. team RDM of the Central Library.
- Gets named by the head of an insitute.
- Grants permissions to the users.
- Manages their dataverse and datasets or supports the institutional staff in doing this.
- Replies to external requests if necessary.
- Depending on the data management arrangement in an institute, might do curation and hit “publish”.
Several people can be entrusted with this roles tasks to balance the load. If an assignee leaves the institute, they[1] shall be replaced by a successor.
- DOI
- A “digital object identifier” is a persistent (non-breaking) identifier for digital assets like text publications, research data and software etc. It is commonly known in the scientific community. Datasets in Jülich DATA are assigned a DOI by DataCite.
- FAIR data
- FAIR data are data which meet principles of findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability. See https://www.go-fair.org/fair-principles, https://www.force11.org/group/fairgroup/fairprinciples and others for more.
- FZJ metadata schema
- Extending the core metadata schemas, it contains fields to save contributing instutes, link attended programs of Helmholtz “Program-Oriented Funding” and storage location URLs (see Data Storage Linking).
- Metadata, bibliographic
- Non-scientific metadata which is used to categorise and index the dataset for becoming FAIR data (e.g. DOI, publication date, author, contact, and licence)
- Metadata, scientific
- Metadata that makes the data (re-)usable in a scientific process (e.g. file format descriptions, experimental parameters, sample descriptions)
- Registry
- See Data Registry.
- Scientific metadata
- See Metadata, scientific
- Uploader
- Real-life person who created the dataset and (potentially) deposited data into it.
Footnotes
| [1] | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they |