Nottingham Metadata Completion Guidance

Overview

This document will provide an overview of the descriptive and structural metadata sections as well as providing links to more detailed completion guidance and FAQs for each metadata attribute.

Metadata Sections

Summary (1)	Documentation (2)	Coverage (3)

Summary (1)	Documentation (2)	Coverage (3)
Title Abstract Keywords DoiName Spatial Coverage Data Use Limitations Publisher Identifier Name Description (Publisher) Contact Point (Publisher)	Description Associated Media Is Part Of	Spatial Geographic Levels Geographic bounding box Lower Left Latitude Lower Left Longitude Upper Right Longitude Upper Right Latitude Temporal Start Date End Date Frequency Distribution Release Date Typical Age Range
Provenance (4)	Access and Governance (5)	Enrichment and Linkage (6)
Purpose Source Collection Situation	(5.1) Usage Data Use Requirements Resource Creator Is Referenced By (5.2) Access Access Rights Access Service Jurisdiction Data Controller Data Processor Information Asset Owner Operational Contact (5.3) Format & Standards Language Format Estimated dataset size Vocabulary Encoding Scheme Conforms To (5.4) Additional Information Governance Location Access Control Classification Personal Data Special Category Data Confidentiality Risk Availability Risk Integrity Risk Retention Accessible To / Data Users Individual records	Related Datasets Linkage Opportunity
Observation (7)	Structural Metadata (8)	Data Status (9)
Observed Node Measured Value Disambiguating Description Observation Date Measured Property	Table Name Table Description Column Name Column Description Data Type	Data Status Data Access