Metadata: Data about your Data

What's in a Data Dictionary and more from USGS

Creating a Data Dictionary with template from USDA Ag Data Commons

Learning Data Analytics - LinkedIn Learning course includes Creating a Data Dictionary 

Metadata Editors and Tools

Good list of metadata editors and tools from DataONE - includes editors for Geospatial and Ecological data as well as editors for more generic data.

Additional Metadata editors:

Geospatial Data 

• CSAS Metadata Program - New web-based metadata generator/editor from the USGS Formal metadata: information and software - Included tools, tips and advanced tops from the USGS

Ecological Data -

• Morpho - Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity

Bioldiversity Data

• Darwin Archive Spreadsheet Processor from Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) generates EML from a spreadsheet template

Scientific Data

•  Directory Interchange Format (DIF)

Social Science and Archiving

• DDI Tools - List of Freeware and Commercial tools for working with DDI docs from Data Documentation Initiative (DDI)

• EAD Toolkit - A variety of EAD related tools from the California Digital Library

Humanities, Social Sciences and Linguistics

• TEI Tools from Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)

Arts

• CDWA Lite Schema - XML schema from The Getty Research Institute

• VRA Core schemas and documentation - from Library of Congress 

Metadata Cleanup

• Cleanup - guide from Free Your Metadata using Open Refine

You may need to use a crosswalk to convert your metadata to a different standard. Examples include:

FGDC to a variety of schemas - from NOAA

CDWA to VRA 4.0 to MODS to EAD - from The Getty