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Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei edited this page Oct 15, 2020 · 4 revisions

Metadata are data about data. In the context of scholcomm, metadata are usually descriptive metadata, describing the essential features of an object.

In recent years, the boundary between data and metadata have become progressively blurred, as data such as references have become included in metadata schemes. The distinction between data and metadata only makes sense as long as the data encoded in an object is (partially) human-readable. In a fully machine-readable object, the encoding and distinction between data and metadata essentially disappears.

Thoth stores metadata in a JSON format. The way in which Thoth stores metadata is represented by the following Entity Relationship Diagram:

Thoth metadata schema

The Thoth Wiki has been developed in the context of the COPIM (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs) project. Individual contributions to the wiki have been made by Tim Elfenbein, Joanne Fitzpatrick, Rupert Gatti, Ross Higman, Hannah Hillen, Brendan O'Connell, Tobias Steiner, and Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei under the general editorship of Van Gerven Oei. All data are available under a CC-BY 4.0 license.

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