Strategies for Reaching a Balance
Tiered approach to metadata development
- Not all data users have the same metadata needs
- Michener et al. (1997) recognize 3 levels of metadata - expert, 3rd party and publishable
- All data are not of equal value
- Metadata for long-term and wide-area data needs to be especially complete
- Short-term data or data with few potential linkages to other data may be less important