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Research data management

What is Metadata?

Metadata is often described as "data about data".

You can think of metadata as like the keywords of a paper – it is there to help people find your data and quickly decide if it is what they need. If you want people to find, reuse and cite your work, it is worth your while making good metadata in order to ‘sell’ your data.

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