Managing Discipline-Specific Metadata Within an Integrated Research Data Management System

Abstract

Our university intends to improve the central IT-support for management of research data. A core demand is supporting FAIR guiding principles. In order to make research data findable for future research projects, an application for the creation and storage of structured meta data for research data was developed. The created meta data repository enable creating, maintaining and querying research data based on discipline-specific properties. Since large number of meta data standards exist for different scientific domains, technologies from the areas of Linked Data and Semantic Web are used to process and store meta data. This work describes the requirements, the design and the implementation a the meta data application that can be integrated into existing research work flows and gives an overview of technical backgrounds used for creating the meta data repository.