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Metadata Entry Tool

Metadata Entry Tool

In order to catalogue Indigenous data, the metadata describing the data needs to be collected and stored in a standardised way - as outlined on the Characterising Indigenous Data page and explained in the Metadata Profile.

The Metadata Entry Tool allows you to complete the information required for describing the Indigenous Data to be catalogued and to see how your entered information meets FAIR data principles. This information can then be saved and shared in a machine-readable standard for describing web resources and data interchange known as Resource Description Framework or RDF. There are a number of attributes that must be completed but it is hoped that all attributes will be completed to give a fuller description of the data.

The Indigenous Data Network acknowledges the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we work and live. We pay respect to their Elders, past and present, and the place of Indigenous Knowledge in the academy and beyond. We acknowledge and respect that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have always used resources from the land and waters for nourishment, medicine and healing.
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