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Value-lists controled metadata

Updated at: 02/08/2024

 

  1. Common Metadata
    1. Author > Identifier Type
    2. Contributor > Type
    3. Contributor > Identifier Type
    4. Description > Language
    5. Language
    6. Subject
    7. Data Type
    8. Data Origin
    9. Life Cycle Step
    10. Related Publication > Identifier Type
    11. Related Dataset > Identifier Type
  2. Geospatial Metadata
    1. Geographic Coverage > Country / Nation
    2. Conformity > Degree
  3. Social Science and Humanities Metadata
    1. Unit of Analysis
    2. Time Method
    3. Sampling Procedure
  4. Life Sciences Metadata
    1. Design Type
    2. Factor Type
    3. Organism
    4. Measurement Type
    5. Technology Type
  5. Journal Metadata
    1. Type of Article
  6. Semantic resource
    1. Type of semantic resource
    2. Nature of the semantic resource
    3. Designed for
  7. Astronomy and Astrophysics Metadata
    1. Type
  8. Computational Workflow Metadata
    1. Workflow Type

 

Lists of controlled values used in Research Data Gouv repository

 

Common Metadata

 

Author > Identifier Type

  • DOI
  • idHAL
  • ISNI
  • ORCID
  • ROR

 

Contributor > Type

Partly based on DataCite 4.0 Schema's metadata “contributorType”.

  • Data collector
  • Data curator
  • Data manager
  • Editor
  • (Obsolete) Funder
  • Hosting institution
  • Metadata author
  • Project leader
  • Project manager
  • Project member
  • Registration agency
  • Registration authority
  • Related person
  • Researcher
  • Research group
  • Rights holder
  • Sponsor
  • Supervisor
  • Work Package Leader
  • Other

 

Contributor > Identifier Type

  • DOI
  • info
  • idHAL
  • ISNI
  • ORCID
  • ROR

 

Description > Language

Based on ISO 639 standard.

 

Language

Based on ISO 639 standard.

 

Subject

Based on the OECD classification.

  • Agricultural Sciences
  • Arts and Humanities
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Business and Management
  • Chemistry
  • Computer and Information Science
  • Earth and Environmental Sciences
  • Engineering
  • Law
  • Mathematical Sciences
  • Medicine, Health and Life Sciences
  • Physics
  • Social Sciences
  • Other

 

Data Type

Based on DataCite 4.0 schema's matadata “resourceTypeGeneral”.

  • Audiovisual
  • Collection
  • Dataset
  • Event
  • Image
  • Interactive Resource
  • Model
  • Physical Object
  • Service
  • Software
  • Sound
  • Text
  • Workflow
  • Other

 

Data Origin

  • Observational data
  • Experimental data
  • Survey data
  • Analysis data
  • Text corpus
  • Simulation data
  • Aggregate data
  • Audiovisual corpus
  • Computer code
  • Other

 

Life Cycle Step

Based on DDI Controlled Vocabulary's "Lifecycle Event Type".

  • Study proposal
  • Funding
  • Study design
  • Instrument design
  • Questionnaire translation
  • Questionnaire adaptation
  • Interviewer training
  • Ethics review
  • Legal review
  • Sampling
  • Instrument pre-testing
  • Pilot study
  • Data collection
  • Data collection reports
  • Data processing
  • Data processing: Coding
  • Data processing: Classification
  • Data processing: Transcriptions of interviews
  • Data processing: Weighting
  • Data processing: Aggregation
  • Data processing: Composite measures
  • Data processing: Derivation
  • Data processing: Quality checks
  • Data processing: Data integration
  • Data processing: Disclosure limitation
  • Data processing: Imputation
  • Metadata production
  • Metadata editing
  • Metadata translation
  • Final report
  • Evaluation
  • Original release
  • Deposit
  • Preservation package production
  • Dissemination package production
  • Dissemination package release
  • Data analysis reports
  • New version release
  • Other

 

Related Publication > Identifier Type

  • ark
  • arXiv
  • bibcode
  • cstr
  • doi
  • ean13
  • eissn
  • halid
  • handle
  • isbn
  • issn
  • istc
  • lissn
  • lsid
  • pmid
  • purl
  • upc
  • url
  • urn
  • DASH-NRS

 

Related Dataset > Identifier Type

  • ark
  • doi
  • handle
  • purl
  • urn
  • rrid

 

Geospatial Metadata

 

Geographic Coverage > Country / Nation

Based on ISO 3166 standard, available here.

 

Conformity > Degree

  • Conformant
  • Non conformant
  • Non evaluated

 

Social Science and Humanities Metadata

 

Unit of Analysis

Based on DDI Controlled Vocabulary's "Analysis Unit".

  • Individual
  • Organization
  • Family
  • Family: Household family
  • Household
  • Housing Unit
  • Event/Process
  • Geographic Unit
  • Time Unit
  • Text Unit
  • Group
  • Object
  • Other

 

Time Method

Based on DDI Controlled Vocabulary's "Time Method".

  • Longitudinal
  • Longitudinal: Cohort/Event-based
  • Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section
  • Longitudinal: Panel
  • Longitudinal: Panel: Continuous
  • Longitudinal: Panel: Interval
  • Time Series
  • TimeSeries: Continuous
  • TimeSeries: Discrete
  • Cross-section
  • Cross-section ad-hoc follow-up
  • Other

 

Sampling Procedure

Based on DDI Controlled Vocabulary's "Sampling Procedure".

  • Total universe/Complete enumeration
  • Probability
  • Probability: Simple random
  • Probability: Systematic random
  • Probability: Stratified
  • Probability: Stratified: Proportional
  • Probability: Stratified: Disproportional
  • Probability: Cluster
  • Probability: Cluster: Simple random
  • Probability: Cluster: Stratified random
  • Probability: Multistage
  • Non-probability
  • Non-probability: Availability
  • Non-probability: Purposive
  • Non-probability: Quota
  • Non-probability: Respondent-assisted
  • Mixed probability and non-probability

 

Collection Mode

Based on DDI Controlled Vocabulary's "Mode Of Collection".

  • Interview
  • Face-to-face interview
  • Face-to-face interview: CAPI
  • Face-to-face interview: PAPI
  • Telephone interview
  • Telephone interview: CATI
  • E-mail interview
  • Web-based interview
  • Self-administered questionnaire
  • Fixed form self-administered questionnaire
  • Fixed form self-administered questionnaire: E-mail
  • Fixed form self-administered questionnaire: Paper
  • Fixed form self-administered questionnaire: SMS/MMS
  • Fixed form self-administered questionnaire: Web-based
  • Interactive self-administered questionnaire
  • Interactive self-administered questionnaire: CASI
  • Interactive self-administered questionnaire: CASI: VCASI
  • Interactive self-administered questionnaire: CASI: ACASI
  • Interactive self-administered questionnaire: CASI: TACASI
  • Interactive self-administered questionnaire: CAWI
  • Focus group
  • Face-to-face focus group
  • Telephone focus group
  • Online focus group
  • Self-administered writings and/or diaries
  • Self-administered writings and/or diaries: E-mail
  • Self-administered writings and/or diaries: Paper
  • Self-administered writings and/or diaries: Web-based
  • Observation
  • Field observation
  • Participant field observation
  • Non-participant field observation
  • Laboratory observation
  • Participant laboratory observation
  • Non-participant laboratory observation
  • Computer-based observation
  • Experiment
  • Laboratory experiment
  • Field/Intervention experiment
  • Web-based experiment
  • Recording
  • Content coding
  • Transcription
  • Compilation/Synthesis
  • Summary
  • Aggregation
  • Simulation
  • Measurements and tests
  • Educational measurements and tests
  • Physical measurements and tests
  • Psychological measurements and tests
  • Other

 

Life Sciences Metadata

 

Design Type

  • Case Control
  • Cross Sectional
  • Cohort Study
  • Nested Case Control Design
  • Not Specified
  • Parallel Group Design
  • Perturbation Design
  • Randomized Controlled Trial
  • Technological Design
  • Other

 

Factor Type

  • Age
  • Biomarkers
  • Cell Surface Markers
  • Cell Type/Cell Line
  • Developmental Stage
  • Disease State
  • Drug Susceptibility
  • Extract Molecule
  • Genetic Characteristics
  • Immunoprecipitation Antibody
  • Organism
  • Passages
  • Platform
  • Sex
  • Strain
  • Time Point
  • Tissue Type
  • Treatment Compound
  • Treatment Type
  • Other

 

Organism

  • Arabidopsis thaliana
  • Bos taurus
  • Caenorhabditis elegans
  • Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
  • Danio rerio (zebrafish)
  • Dictyostelium discoideum
  • Drosophila melanogaster
  • Escherichia coli
  • Hepatitis C virus
  • Homo sapiens
  • Mus musculus
  • Mycobacterium africanum
  • Mycobacterium canetti
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis
  • Mycoplasma pneumoniae
  • Oryza sativa
  • Plasmodium falciparum
  • Pneumocystis carinii
  • Rattus norvegicus
  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae (brewer's yeast)
  • Schizosaccharomyces pombe
  • Takifugu rubripes
  • Xenopus laevis
  • Zea mays
  • Other

 

Measurement Type

  • Cell sorting
  • Clinical chemistry analysis
  • Copy number variation profiling
  • DNA methylation profiling
  • DNA methylation profiling (Bisulfite-Seq)
  • DNA methylation profiling (MeDIP-Seq)
  • Drug susceptibility
  • Environmental gene survey
  • Genome sequencing
  • Hematology
  • Histology
  • Histone Modification (ChIP-Seq)
  • Loss of heterozygosity profiling
  • Metabolite profiling
  • Metagenome sequencing
  • Protein expression profiling
  • Protein identification
  • Protein-DNA binding site identification
  • Protein-protein interaction detection
  • Protein-RNA binding (RIP-Seq)
  • SNP analysis
  • Targeted sequencing
  • Transcription factor binding (ChIP-Seq)
  • Transcription factor binding site identification
  • Transcription profiling
  • Transcription profiling (Microarray)
  • Transcription profiling (RNA-Seq)
  • TRAP translational profiling
  • Other

 

Technology Type

  • Culture based drug susceptibility testing, single concentration
  • Culture based drug susceptibility testing, two concentrations
  • Culture based drug susceptibility testing, three or more concentrations (minimium inhibitory concentration measurement)
  • DNA microarray
  • Flow cytometry
  • Gel electrophoresis
  • Mass spectrometry
  • NMR spectroscopy
  • Nucleotide sequencing
  • Protein microarray
  • Real time PCR
  • No technology required
  • Other

 

Journal Metadata

 

Type of Article

  • Abstract
  • Addendum
  • Announcement
  • Article-commentary
  • Book review
  • Books received
  • Brief report
  • Calendar
  • Case report
  • Collection
  • Correction
  • Data paper
  • Discussion
  • Dissertation
  • Editorial
  • In brief
  • Introduction
  • Letter
  • Meeting report
  • News
  • Obituary
  • Oration
  • Partial retraction
  • Product review
  • Rapid communication
  • Reply
  • Reprint
  • Research article
  • Retraction
  • Review article
  • Translation
  • Other

 

Semantic resource

 

Type of semantic resource

  • Classification scheme
  • Dictionary
  • Gazetteer
  • Glossary
  • List
  • Name authority list
  • Ontology
  • Semantic network
  • Subject heading scheme
  • Taxonomy
  • Terminology
  • Thesaurus
  • Other

 

Nature of the semantic resource

  • Application Ontology
  • Core Ontology
  • Domain Ontology
  • Task Ontology
  • Upper Level Ontology
  • Vocabulary
  • Other

 

Designed for

  • Annotation Task
  • Configuration Task
  • Filtering Task
  • Indexing Task
  • Integration Task
  • Matching Task
  • Mediation Task
  • Personalization Task
  • Query Formulation Task
  • Query Rewriting Task
  • Search Task

 

Astronomy and Astrophysics Metadata

 

Type

  • Image
  • Mosaic
  • EventList
  • Spectrum
  • Cube
  • Table
  • Catalog
  • LightCurve
  • Simulation
  • Figure
  • Artwork
  • Animation
  • PrettyPicture
  • Documentation
  • Other
  • Library
  • Press Release
  • Facsimile
  • Historical
  • Observation
  • Object
  • Value
  • ValuePair
  • Survey

 

Computational Workflow Metadata

 

Workflow Type

  • Common Workflow Language (CWL)
  • Workflow Description Language (WDL)
  • Nextflow
  • Snakemake
  • Ruffus
  • DAGMan
  • Jupyter Notebook
  • R Notebook
  • MATLAB Script
  • Bash Script
  • Makefile
  • Other Python-based workflow
  • Other R-based workflow
  • Other

 

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