Hi,
In the world of social science every data archive in the world uses the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI). This is the de facto standard for describing data in a robust way. It lends itself to all data, particularly at the study level and we have used it to describe environment and medical data.
http://www.ddialliance.org/
Best
Louise
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Hello
Have any of you come across a recognised standard for documenting data and the relationships between data? Effectively what we are looking for is for a method to document semantics so that when we are looking at the data again in, say , 10 years from now this data will mean something to us.
Many thanks
Birgit
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