Week 7 - Metadata standards & computing environments
Metadata standards
Learning goals
- Understand the role of metadata in facilitating the management, discovery, interoperability, and reuse of digital resources and research data.
- Recognize the importance of adhering to domain-specific metadata standards and determining which standard should be used.
- Identify metadata standards relevant to environmental sciences research.
Slides and other materials
Recommended readings
Gries, C., Hanson, P. C., O’Brien, M., Servilla, M., Vanderbilt, K., & Waide, R. (2023). The Environmental Data Initiative: Connecting the past to the future through data reuse. Ecology and Evolution, 13(1), e9592. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9592
Leipzig, J., Nüst, D., Hoyt, C. T., Ram, K., & Greenberg, J. (2021). The role of metadata in reproducible computational research. Patterns, 2(9), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2021.100322
Virtual Computing Environments
Slides and other materials
Recommended readings
Marwick B, Boettiger C, Mullen L. 2018. Packaging data analytical work reproducibly using R (and friends). PeerJ Preprints 6:e3192v2 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3192v2.
Powers, S. M., & Hampton, S. E. (2019). Open science, reproducibility, and transparency in ecology. Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America, 29(1), e01822. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.1822.
PyPA Guides. (Apr. 4, 2023). Installing packages using pip and virtual environments. https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/guides/installing-using-pip-and-virtual-environments/#creating-a-virtual-environment.
Ushey, K. (April, 6, 2023). Renv: Project environments (Version 0.17.3) [Computer software]. Retrieved from https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/renv/renv.pdf.
