Week 12
Creating and managing spatial metadata
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Summary
Learn about both the basics of metadata and specialized spatial metadata standards. Review examples of READMEs and other types of project documentation.
Overview
This session introduces the basics of metadata and specialized spatial metadata standards. We will also explore how to write READMEs for both data and project documentation.
Key Objectives
- Review examples of READMEs for data sets and projects
- Practice working with data dictionaries and the {labelled} package.
Prepare
Required readings
- Ch. 8 Documentation in Crystal Lewis Data Management in Large-Scale Education Research, 1st ed. (Chapman & Hall, 2024), https://datamgmtinedresearch.com/.
- Ch. 7 Show Your Work in Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein Data Feminism (The MIT Press, 2020), https://data-feminism.mitpress.mit.edu/.
- Shannon Pileggi “The Case for Variable Labels in R” (Piping Hot Data, September 13, 2022), https://www.pipinghotdata.com/posts/2022-09-13-the-case-for-variable-labels-in-r/.
Optional readngs
- “Guide to Writing "Readme" Style Metadata” (Research Data Management Service Group), accessed August 27, 2022, https://data.research.cornell.edu/content/readme.
- Emily Riederer “Column Names as Contracts” (Emily Riederer, September 6, 2020), https://emilyriederer.netlify.app/post/column-name-contracts/.
- “Data-Primers” (DataCurationNetwork, 2019), https://github.com/DataCurationNetwork/data-primers/tree/c6ec438e76fea49eaaf2806bc79ec2c8c12de7f3.