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Project targets

The CREAM project aims to

  1. Create guidelines and exemplars to demonstrate how active metadata can make research more effective, agile and timely for researchers
  2. Facilitate the curation of research data by ensuring that researchers can identify the information that they require to make value judgements
  3. Encourage the use of active metadata across other disciplines by demonstrating the potential for curation, reuse, reproducibility, reinterpretation, validation
  4. Enable new research to be built on a platform provided by previous, already existing, outputs

Goals

  1. Create guidelines and exemplars to demonstrate how active metadata can make research more effective, agile and timely for researchers;
  2. Facilitate the curation of research data by ensuring that researchers can identify the information that they require to make value judgements required for curation, re-use, etc.;
  3. Encourage the use of active metadata across other disciplines by demonstrating the potential for curation, reuse, reproducibility, reinterpretation, and validation.
  4. Enable new research to be built on a platform provided by previous, already existing, outputs, by reusing and repurposing, to generate new technology and outputs by “standing on the shoulders of others”.

Objectives

Bracketed numbers relate objectives to goals:

  • [1.1] Identify user tasks to be supported through active metadata
  • [1.2] Wherever possible, use existing standards (such as W3C PROV) rather than defining new ones: avoid reinventing the wheel
  • [2.1] Develop an abstract but extensible model for core active metadata
  • [2.2] Develop exemplars to illustrate the use of active metadata and content sharing for example, in the geosciences and in a digital research notebook (DRN)
  • [2.3] Adopt or develop a packaging schema that enables metadata outputs to be self describing and so capable of being automatically processed
  • [3.1] Disseminate the guidelines and exemplars with the aim of encouraging curation, reproducibility and validation
  • [4.1] Disseminate the guidelines and exemplars with the aim of encouraging not only new science, preferably from existing facilities, but also serendipity