EDR - Guide to the EDR upload form, Creating quality and descriptive metadata

The EDR was developed in order to facilitate open and FAIR research. Having descriptive metadata facilitates circulation and re-use of the data in both those ways.

When you create descriptive metadata for your uploaded resource, we ask you to think about the potential future users and how that future user might find, assess, and select your uploaded resource, as part of their current research. The descriptive metadata in the EDR should both incorporate the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) and it should help the users perform the user task defined by IFLA (international federation of library associations) – obtain, identify, select and find.