Alaska Region Metadata Guide
  • Alaska Region Interim Metadata Guide
    • Other Training Resources
  • Goals of Data Management
  • Project & Data Management Integration
  • Alaska Region Tools
    • Alaska Regional Data Repository
    • Metadata Standard Checklist
    • Contact Master List
    • mdEditor basics
      • Record Types
      • mdJSON vs. mdEditor files
      • Settings
      • Profiles and Schemas
      • Import Records
      • Copy Records
      • Export Records
      • I Need HELP! and Bug Reporting
    • Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)
    • Data.gov
  • Creating Metadata
    • A Workflow At A Glance
  • Contact Entry Guidance
    • Organization Contacts
    • Individual Contacts
  • Project Metadata Guidance
    • Project Main Tab
      • Guide to Good Titles
    • Project Metadata Tab
    • Project Keywords Tab
    • Project Extent Tab
    • Project Taxonomy Tab
    • Project Distribution Tab
    • Project Funding Tab
    • Project Associated Tab
  • Product Metadata Guidance
    • Product Main Tab
      • Resource Types Defined
    • Product Metadata Tab
    • Product Keywords Tab
    • Product Extent Tab
    • Product Lineage Tab
    • Product Taxonomy Tab
    • Product Distribution Tab
    • Product Constraints Tab
    • Product Associated Tab
  • Product Dictionary Entry Guidance
    • Dictionary Main Tab
    • Dictionary Entities Tab
    • Dictionary Domain Tab
  • Glossary
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  • Basic Information
  • Metadata Status (Required)
  • Date (Required)
  • Metadata Contacts (Required)
  • Metadata Identifier (Required, Auto-generated)

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  1. Project Metadata Guidance

Project Metadata Tab

The Metadata tab describes your project's metadata, included in these fields are metadata status and relevant dates, contributors to the metadata, and metadata repositories.

Basic Information

Metadata Status (Required)

Select the appropriate status of the creation of your metadata from the drop down menu. For example, if you have added all of your metadata, select "completed." If you still have metadata to add, select "onGoing."

Date (Required)

Add at least one date is required. The recommended date type are "creation" (when you first created your metadata) and "lastUpdate" (when you most recently updated the metadata).

Metadata Contacts (Required)

Metadata Contacts are required. Adding a metadata contact will give users a contact point should they have any questions about the metadata.

Role
Description
Required?

author

person who wrote metadata

Required

publisher

default is USFWS-AK region

Best Practice

pointOfContact

Data Steward

Required

Metadata Contact Notes:

  • The author should be the individual who wrote the metadata record and could be a generic position.

  • In most cases, the author will be the data steward, but could be anyone, including a person from outside FWS For example, imported FGDC metadata may list the original author from the data source.

  • Publisher by default should be 'U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Alaska Region' +/- program or unit.

  • The point of contact may be the project manager, principal investigator, data steward, or other project staff personnel.

Metadata Identifier (Required, Auto-generated)

The Metadata Identifier is automatically populated by mdEditor. The metadata identifier gives each of your projects and products a unique ID that differentiates them from other similar projects and products.

  • If the record was imported from ScienceBase, the Metadata Identifier will be auto-populated with the ScienceBase ID (SBID).

  • If the record was created in mdEditor, it will generate a universally unique identifier (UUID).

Once a Metadata Identifier is created in the metadata, do NOT change it. mdEditor uses the Metadata Identifier for record associations and changing the Metadata Identifier can break those links. If there are additional identifiers you want to include in your metadata record, include them in the Main tab under Citation as an identifier (Main/Citation/Identifier).

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Example metadata contact entry
Example mdEditor generated metadata identifier