Metadata Tab: Product

Record Metadata allows you to describe your record's metadata, including a description that outlines the process of metadata creation, contributors to the creation of the metadata, and repositories where the metadata should be included.

Quick Reference: Product Metadata Tab	Required?
Metadata Status	Required
Date	Required
Metadata Contacts	Required
Metadata Identifier	Required
Parent Metadata	Required
Metadata Repositories	Required

Basic Information

Metadata Status

Select the appropriate status of the creation of your metadata from the drop-down menu. For example, if you have added all of your metadata, select "completed." If you still have metadata to add, select "onGoing."

Dates

Enter a creation date or last updated date. At least one of these dates is required.

Metadata Contacts

Metadata Contacts are required and selected from your list of contacts. Adding a metadata contact will give LCC staff a contact point should they have any questions about the metadata.

Role	Contact	Required?
author	See notes below	At least one is required
publisher	default is USFWS	Required
pointOfContact	SA Data Steward	Required

Metadata Contact Notes:

• The author should be an individual and can be a generic data manager.

• In most cases, the author will be the data manager, but could be anyone, including someone outside of FWS (e.g., imported FGDC metadata can list the original author).

• Publisher can also include the FWS region and/or program.

• The point of contact should be a regional or national data steward.

Example Metadata Contacts entry

Example Contact Metadata entry

Metadata Identifier

The Metadata Identifier is automatically populated by mdEditor. The metadata identifier gives each of your projects and products a unique ID and differentiates them from other similar projects and products. Note this is difference from a Digital Object Identifier which is linked directly to the dataset.

• If the record was imported from ScienceBase, the Metadata Identifier will be auto-populated with the ScienceBase ID (SBID).

• If the record was created in mdEditor, it will generate a universally unique identifier (UUID).

Once a Metadata Identifier is created in the metadata, do not change it. mdEditor uses the Metadata Identifier to connect records and changing the Metadata Identifier can break those connections. If there are additional identifiers you want to include in your metadata record, include them in Main/Citation/Identifier.

Example auto-generated Metadata identifier entry

Example of identifiers in citation.

Parent Metadata

Parent Metadata defines the ScienceBase folder in which the product will be published. The parent metadata tells mdEditor where the product metadata should go when it is published to ScienceBase.

If you imported the product metadata from ScienceBase originally, this section will be populated already.

If you created the product metadata from scratch in mdEditor, you need to enter the appropriate parent item ScienceBase ID. This is most likely the folder for the project that this product originated from.

Title (Required)

If this is not already populated, you can enter something like "Parent folder."

Identifier (Required)

Defines the location of the parent folder in ScienceBase.

Identifier	Namespace
ScienceBase identifier for the parent item	scienceBase

The ScienceBase identifier is the alphanumeric string in the item's URL immediately following "item/". For example, 59b97600e4b091459a54d9f3c is the SBID for the item at the URL: https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/59b97600e4b091459a54d9f3c

Example Parent Metadata entry

Metadata Repositories

Metadata Repositories indicate where the metadata will be sent upon publishing.

SA Science Catalog

For products that should be listed in the SA Science Catalog: Select “ScienceCatalog” from the repository list. “SA Science Catalog” should automatically show up as the collection title. If the collection title does not appear, stop and enter the correct information in Settings. Then select the repository for your project. Products without the correct tag and collection title will not show up in the Science Catalog.

data.gov

For products that should be sent to data.gov: Select "data.gov" from the repository list. The full name of your data.gov tag should automatically show up in the collection title. If the collection title does not appear, stop and enter the correct information in Settings. Then select the data.gov repository for your product. Products without the correct tag and collection title will not be sent to data.gov.

The Metadata Repository and Collection Title must be exactly the same for each of your LCC's records with no variations in spelling, spaces, capitalization, etc. Specifying this information in Settings is the best way to ensure the repository information will be consistent across all of your records. It strongly recommended that you do not type these in by hand on individual metadata records.

Example Metadata Repository entry