Metadata Application Profile

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The creation of the VaxStats’ metadata schema was guided by the needs of users, with regard to both consumption and submission of data. As the primary focus of the VaxStats’ repository is government created documents and reports, the metadata schema was modeled after, whose primary purpose is to describe datasets and other publications produced by government agencies. VaxStats’ schema differs from Project Open metadata’s primarily by way of which fields are required.

‌VaxStats’ metadata schema is modeled according to the, an RDF vocabulary which uses terminology from the. It is intended for use in government repositories, and was especially suited to the needs of VaxStats user community.

Application Profile

Cardinality is expressed in Martin notation:

1:1 mandatory, not repeatable 1:N mandatory, repeatable 0:1 optional, not repeatable 0:N optional, repeatable

Class: Catalog

A data catalog is a curated collection of metadata about datasets.

Class: Dataset

A collection of data, published or curated by a single agent, and available for access or download in one or more formats.

Class: Distribution

Distribution represents a specific available form of a dataset. Each dataset might be available in different forms, these forms might represent different formats of the dataset or different endpoints. Examples of distributions include a downloadable CSV file, an API or an RSS feed .

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