Metadata driven data management and computation with DDI-Lifecycle

The presentation gives an overview of CLOSER Discovery (discovery.closer.ac.uk) providing a use case for infrastructure that supports transparent research based on open standards.

CLOSER Discovery uses DDI-Lifecycle (http://www.ddialliance.org/Specification/DDI-Lifecycle/) to provide persistent identifiers at the variable level enabling the provenance of data. Contextual metadata about the way in which the data was collected can also be used in assessing and documenting the decisions software makes about data processing and for its use in computation and analysis.