Edit Metadata

Overview

The metadata describes your Data Collection and is of crucial importance for its quality and findability. Some, but not all, information is necessarily required. To improve the quality and usability of your data set, and to make your Data Collection findable for other researchers, you should provide as much information as possible.

Below is an overview with short descriptions of every metadata entry, which may help you to fill out and edit the metadata description of your data set.

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Creators (required)

Please put the names of the original author/s of the data set in the "creators" field.

Data repository

In case you have already published/archived your data set in another data repository such as the Harvard Dataverse, the UK Data Archive, etc., please indicate them here.

Date/period of data creation (from)

Please indicate the date or period when your started with the collection of your data (date format YYYY-MM-DD).

Date/period of data creation (to)

Please indicate the date or period when your started with the collection of your data (date format YYYY-MM-DD).

Date of data creation (text)

Alternatively, if you cannot specify the exact date please indicate the approximate date here (eg. "October 2010")

Time period covered in data collection (from)

Please indicate the initial date or period that is covered in your data set (date format YYYY-MM-DD)

Time period covered in data collection (to)

Please indicate the end of the date or period that is covered in your data set (date format YYYY-MM-DD)

Time period covered (text)

Alternatively, if you cannot specify the exact date please indicate the approximate date here (eg. "October 2010")

Source of data (required)

Please indicate the source of your data set (e.g. respondents, media, public opinion polls, etc.).

Datatypes (required)

Please select the type(s) of your data. If your type of data is not in the list, select "other" and specify the exact data type in the box "Datatype text" below.

Institutional affiliation

Please indicate your institution at the time of data collection (e.g. Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen).

Funding

If the collection of your data set was financially supported, please indicate the name of the funding institution(s) (e.g. "The compilation of this data was funded by the German Research Foundation").

Related data set (text)

If your data is related to other datasets published with Discuss Data, please copy and paste the DOI of the related dataset(s) and indicate, how they are related.

Related dataset

In case your data set is related to other Data Collections published through Discuss Data, you can select them in the list. Selected Data Collections are highlighted in blue. If several Data Collections are to be selected, this can be done by holding down the "Ctrl" key.

Related projects

In this Data Collection was compiled within a (research) project, please provide the name of the project.

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