Data stewardship: An introduction to data standards and metadata

Whether you’re gathering new data or using existing data, applying data standards will make your life easier. And documenting your data in metadata will ensure that others can find them, understand them and use them. In this video, you’ll learn what we can do to data to make them easier to work with. That’s the role of data standards. You’ll also learn what extra information we can provide to make data easier to use. That’s the role of metadata.