Metadata management: increase efficiency with Opendatasoft’s customized templates
Learn more about the metadata templates available on our data portal solution and how they help to improve data quality and compliance, increase efficiency and save time on a daily basis.
When it comes to data sharing, strong, consistent and informative metadata is as valuable as the actual data itself. It ensures that information can be easily and confidently found, understood and reused by users.
Managing the metadata of all your data assets is critical to data sharing and democratization. That’s why Opendatasoft is committed to making metadata management as simple and efficient as possible for users of its solution.
Learn more about the metadata templates available on our data portal solution and how they help to improve data quality and compliance, increase efficiency and save time on a daily basis.
Opendatasoft metadata templates
Metadata templates are forms that group together a set of fields used to describe datasets. They have been designed to facilitate metadata administration and encourage data discovery on your portal.
Users can create and activate their own customized data templates, or choose from pre-existing templates based on leading international standards.
This unique functionality benefits users in multiple ways, including:
- Improving data discoverability and searchability
- Guaranteeing effective data governance through internal, regulatory or sector-specific compliance levels for each dataset
- Optimizing administration and management by making it easier to enter metadata
- Making data integration and interoperability easier, as well as enabling metadata collection by other data ecosystems.
Metadata templates
There are three categories of metadata templates:
- Basic templates: these include standard templates that can be common to several datasets, and fully customizable templates that can be used to create metadata tailored to an organization’s requirements.
- Interoperability templates: users can choose from a variety of pre-existing templates to ensure compatibility with different international standards, such as DCAT, DCAT-AP, INSPIRE, or Dublin Core. An in-built metadata inheritance feature significantly reduces workloads by eliminating the need to repeatedly enter the same metadata, whether in the standard model or in interoperability models such as DCAT-AP or Dublin Core.
- Administrative templates: these are visible only to portal administrators, and ensure good internal governance of metadata.
Metadata management with Opendatasoft: simplifying the process
An intuitive metadata management experience
Opendatasoft’s metadata templates are built on intuitive interfaces and comprehensive support. This makes the user experience simple and seamless, encouraging rapid adoption and ensuring that metadata is filled in correctly and systematically. Clear instructions are provided to simplify the data entry process, with help texts for each field.
Metadata customization
With Opendatasoft’s basic metadata templates, users can fine-tune fields to their organization’s precise requirements.
This offers maximum flexibility and customization, enabling customers to create templates that meet their exact specifications, including around naming conventions and fields.
Metadata auto-fill
Opendatasoft’s metadata templates encourage the accurate, complete entry of information, thanks to an intuitive auto-fill feature with tailored suggestions. Portal administrators save time by empowering data producers to add their own metadata while minimizing the risk of errors.
Mandating entry of specified fields to ensure metadata completeness
Portal administrators can make adding certain metadata compulsory. This ensures robust metadata governance and saves time by avoiding missing fields in metadata for specific assets.
Metadata is essential to your data management strategy, and Opendatasoft is constantly developing innovative new features to help you manage it effectively.
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Well-structured metadata is crucial to enabling data to be found and used with confidence within organizations and ecosystems. It is central to effective data sharing and reuse. At Opendatasoft our mission is to accelerate data democratization, ensuring that everyone has access to easily understandable information in their working and home lives. Our data portal solution enables data democratization by centralizing all of an organization’s data assets and making it available to all internal and external users in a seamless, intuitive way, without requiring specialist skills or support.
Understanding the importance of metadata and putting the right strategy in place is vital to effective data sharing and reuse via data portals to progress towards data democratization. Our comprehensive blog explains what metadata is, outlines its benefits and shares best practice for your strategy.
Data without context is meaningless. When presented with data, most people immediately ask a variety of questions, such as: Where did it come from? When was it last updated? Who is responsible for maintaining it? Metadata can answer these questions and many more.
Well-structured metadata is crucial to enabling data to be found and used with confidence within organizations and ecosystems. It is central to effective data sharing and reuse. At Opendatasoft our mission is to accelerate data democratization, ensuring that everyone has access to easily understandable information in their working and home lives. Our data portal solution enables data democratization by centralizing all of an organization’s data assets and making it available to all internal and external users in a seamless, intuitive way, without requiring specialist skills or support.
Understanding the importance of metadata and putting the right strategy in place is vital to effective data sharing and reuse via data portals to progress towards data democratization. Our comprehensive blog explains what metadata is, outlines its benefits and shares best practice for your strategy.
Data without context is meaningless. When presented with data, most people immediately ask a variety of questions, such as: Where did it come from? When was it last updated? Who is responsible for maintaining it? Metadata can answer these questions and many more.