Big Data, Big Metadata and Quantitative Study of Science: A Workflow Model for Big Scientometrics

Bratt, S., Hemsley, J., Qin, J., & Costa, M. (2017). Big data, big metadata and quantitative study of science: A workflow model for big scientometrics. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 54(1), 36–45. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.2017.14505401005 

This paper introduces a definition of big metadata in the context of scientific data repositories and discusses the challenges in big metadata analytics due to the messiness, lack of structures suitable for analytics and heterogeneity in such big metadata.