[open-science] OKF tools: ckan.org, thedatahub.org

Wed Apr 4 21:59:53 UTC 2012

Right--the question I'm getting at is how do we make your entering that
data even easier, and how do we keep the metadata from getting lost? We
build systems that are more interoperable (to replicate and make
discoverable  both data and its metadata).
On Apr 4, 2012 5:07 PM, "Mike Taylor" <mike at indexdata.com> wrote:

> On 4 April 2012 19:32, Stacy Konkiel <stacy.konkiel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Peter's right about metadata. One of the hardest nuts to crack re:
> > data repositories and making data more discoverable seems to be
> > metadata--how do we get scientists to supply metadata without creating
> > more work for them.
>
> The tragedy is, scientists DO create this metadata: every online
> submission system I've ever used has required me to enter authors and
> addresses, keywords, number of figures, etc.  Yet that all gets thrown
> away once the Holy PDF has been made.
>
> -- Mike.
>
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