Skills Development Workshop

Day 1: Thursday, 12 September

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Maximise your research potential: a beginner's guide to FAIR metadata

Session convener: Hayley Mills, CLOSER, UCL

FAIR data [go-fair.org] is a focus for all funders, whether in the UK, Europe or further afield. For instance, "UKRI aims to achieve open research data that is ‘findable’, accessible, interoperable and re-useable (UKRI Open research [ukri.org])."
Whilst creating FAIR meta(data) is primarily the responsibility of archives, journals and repositories, researchers need to be aware of and be prepared to provide the right information for them. The session will equip you to understand the core principles of data and metadata, and how metadata not only benefits access to your data, but helps you to think about how you use and discover research data.