Metadata Activities in Biology

Journal Article · Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2010 · Journal Library Metadata

OSTI ID:1038462

Inigo, Gil San ^[1]; HUTCHISON, VIVIAN ^[2]; Frame, Mike ^[2]; Palanisamy, Giri ^[3]

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1. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
2. USGS
3. ORNL

The National Biological Information Infrastructure program has advanced the biological sciences ability to standardize, share, integrate and synthesize data by making the metadata program a core of its activities. Through strategic partnerships, a series of crosswalks for the main biological metadata specifications have enabled data providers and international clearinghouses to aggregate and disseminate tens of thousands of metadata sets describing petabytes of data records. New efforts at the National Biological Information Infrastructure are focusing on better metadata creation and curation tools, semantic mediation for data discovery and other curious initiatives.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: Work for Others (WFO)
• DOE Contract Number: DE-AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 1038462
• Journal Information: Journal Library Metadata, Vol. 10, Issue 2-3
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
60 APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES
BIOLOGY
FOCUSING
SPECIFICATIONS
metadata
metadata creation
metadata curation
metadata quality control
data management