How portable are the metadata standards for scientific data? A proposal for a metadata infrastructure

Qin, J. & Li, K. (2013). How portable are the metadata standards for scientific data? A proposal for a metadata infrastructure. In: Dublin Core International Conference DC-2013, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2-6, 2013. https://dcpapers.dublincore.org/pubs/article/view/3670

The one-covers-all approach in current metadata standards for scientific data has serious limitations in keeping up with the ever-growing data. This paper reports the findings from a survey to metadata standards in the scientific data domain and argues for the need for a metadata infrastructure.