National Metadata Descriptions

The project developed national metadata description model and database for digital information resources.

Objectives

The outputs of the project are

National metadata catalogue and metadata descriptions of pilot datasets
Database for metadata descriptions
Metadata editor / user interface for editing and creating metadata.

Implementation

National Metadata Descriptions (Digitaalisten tietoaineistojen kansallinen kuvausjärjestelmä in Finnish) was a joint project of the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Statistics Finland, Finnish Social Science Data Archive (FSD) and Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra. It was pre-production project of the Isaacus project (the Digital Health HUB) and it co-operated with other pre-production projects.

Funding

The Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra
National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
Statistics Finland.

Results

The project developed a national metadata description model and services. In addition, variable and classification-level pilot metadata descriptions were produced from the data of several registry holders.

Metadata catalogue Data resources catalogue (Aineistokatalogi in Finnish) was published on December 12, 2017
To the Data resources catalogue
Metadata description tool Data resource editor (Aineistoeditori in Finnish) was published on December 12, 2017
To the Data resource editor
As a pilot of the metadata catalogue, THL's Metadata catalogue (Aineistoluettelo in Finnish) was published on 14 December 2016, which was later removed.