Getting Started

Data and Metadata

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Quote by Jeffrey Pomerantz saying 'Data is stuff. It is raw, unprocessed, possibly even untouched by human hands, unviewed by human eyes,, un-thought-about by human minds.'
Pomerantz, J. (2015). Metadata. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

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Information pyramid from glyphs to wisdom highlighting the data fracture. Text reads: Data is potential information and needs to be processed and contextualized to make it accessible for the human audience.

Structured Metadata: From Markup to JSON

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Quote by Monya Baker in Nature from 2016, saying 'More than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments. More than half have failed to reproduce their own experiments.'
Baker, M. (2016) “1,500 scientists lift the lid on reproducibility.”, Nature 533, 452 - 454.https://doi.org/10.1038/533452a

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Quote by Cynthia Zender, SAS Institue, saying 'To make markup work, the writer and the interpreter of the marked up content have to agree on the interpretation of the markup symbols.'
* Zender, C. (2005) Cynthia Zender (2005). Markup 101: Markup Basics. SAS Institute. https://www.lexjansen.com/pharmasug/2005/Tutorials/tu12.pdf

Enabling Technologies and Standards

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Quote by Tim Berners-Lee saying 'The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.'

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Depiction of the 15 Dublin Core Elements: Creator, Contributor, Publisher, Title, Date, Language, Format, Subject, Description, Identifier, Relation, Source, Type, Coverage, Rights

(Web) Location and Identifiers

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Quote from the Book Vanishing Act: The Erosion of Online Footnotes and Implications for Schlolarship in the Digital Age by Daniela Dimitrova and Michael Bugeja, saying 'Vanishing online footnotes undermine the building blocks of research, and their disappearance raises concerns about the reliability and replicability of scholarship.'
Bugeja, M., Dimitrova, D. (2010) in “Vanishing Act: The Erosion of Online Footnotes and Implications for Scholarship in the Digital Age.” Litwin Books. https://dr.lib.iastate.edu/handle/20.500.12876/96527

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Relationship between URI, URN and URL. URN and URL are seperated entities but both are a subtype of URI.

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Examplary representation of the URL syntax: protocol specification, host adress, file path and query parameters.
URL Example