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Making your geospatial data easy to find: Metadata best practice guide for data publishers
Guidance on promoting the findability of metadata.
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This report provides guidance to promote the findability of metadata. Metadata provides a structured description of a dataset that allows a user to discover data and appraise its usefulness to them. Metadata itself, however, needs to be created in a way to maximise that it can be found and used.
The Metadata best practice guide gives guidance to geospatial data publishers in the UK about how to create metadata that is: complete and accurate, easy to read, discoverable, and reusable. It encourages and promotes the adoption of the UK GEMINI standard, with the aim of providing a consistent approach to geospatial metadata across organisations and departments.
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Published 12 November 2021