CMM1 in Retrospect and Forecast for CMM2 - The CESSDA Metadata Management Project

The CESSDA (Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives) Metadata Management project produced in May 2017 the CESSDA Metadata Standards Portfolio Version 1 that contains the CESSDA Metadata Core Model and the multilingual CESSDA Controlled Vocabularies. The Portfolio is based on DDI Lifecycle 3.2 and DDI CVs.

We will provide a rough overview of the Core Metadata Model and the CVs, and demonstrate how we used the DDI capabilities to represent our model, and how the model can support building CESSDA services like the Product and Service Catalogue and the Euro Question Bank.

The CESSDA metadata work continues in CMM Phase 2 project that will enhance and expand the Portfolio, and make it possible to align optimally with other CESSDA initiatives. The second part of the presentation will give a preview of the outputs of CMM phase 2. We will also discuss the challenges of developing the CMM model and the lessons learned so far.