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Resources for Understanding Metadata

Self-guided learning by CLOSER's Metadata Team

This is an evolving resource developed by CLOSER's Metadata team to create teaching and upskilling resources to improve the understanding of metadata to support the better use and understanding of research data.

Start the Introduction course

Improvements and bugs

If you find any errors or want to suggest improvements, please post an issue at the github repository here. We will add you to the list of contributors

Feedback on the site

We are running a short survey to get more general feedback, if you are able to find 10 minutes to complete it once you've reviewed the course.

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Reusing our materials

We encourage reuse of these materials, if you do so, please respect the licencing, and let us know how you are using it.

If you reference the work: please use the following citation

APA

Mills, H., Oldroyd, B., Johnson, J., White, S., & Reed, K. (2025). Understanding Metadata (Version 1.0) [Online course]. https://github.com/CLOSER-Cohorts/understanding-metadata

BIBTEX

@software{Mills_Understanding_Metadata_2025, author = {Mills, Hayley and Oldroyd, Becky and Johnson, Jon and White, Sarah and Reed, Kate}, license = {CC-BY-NC-SA}, month = dec, title = {{Understanding Metadata}}, url = {https://github.com/CLOSER-Cohorts/understanding-metadata}, version = {1.0}, year = {2025} }

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Contributors

Thank you to all those who have helped to improve the resource