From Data to Credits: Using ReadMe, Markdown, and Dublin Core for Better Documentation

Howto for a simple ReadMe in flavor of the Love Data Week 2025 presented at SLUB Open Science Lab for using plain Markdown and Dublin Core to annotate your data . See the file "ReadMe.md" for an example.

Furthermore, as this ReadMe follows a straightforward structure given by section and text, simplistic parsing can be used to extract and validate the metadata and to streamline the documentation process. One implementation of a parser written in python to convert Markdown to JSON files can be found here.

Link to Poster: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15127381
Link to Markdown-to-JSON-Parser: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14942696 and https://github.com/Bondoki/ParsingMetadataMD2JSON