1040 Creating Well-formed Metadata and Metadata Business Rules

Description:

Course 1041: Creating Well-formed Metadata in caDSR provides learners with the rules and specifications for curating meaningful, well-defined metadata. It provides insight and guidance for naming conventions and creating definitions. The use of workflow and registration status is discussed in detail.

Credit for the Course: In order to receive credit for this course, you will need to register for course 1040 by contacting NCI CBIIT Application Support and obtain a score of 80% or higher on the 1041 accompanying quiz.

Objectives:

• Describe the ISO/IEC 11179 administered items that make up a data element

• Discuss the details of administered item naming conventions and how to apply them when creating metadata in caDSR

• Build names for data element concepts, value domains and data elements using the ISO/IEC 11179 standard as a template

• Create meaningful definitions for data elements

• Understand how data element concepts and value domains can be reused to create new data elements

• Choose an appropriate workflow status for administered items

• Discuss the different registration statuses and how they are related to data elements in caDSR

Prerequisites:

• 1000 Introduction to Semantic Metadata
• 1010 Introduction to Metadata in the caDSR
• 1020 Using the CDE Browser
• 1030 Introduction to Enterprise Vocabulary Services (EVS)

Course 1042:  Versioning Rules for Metadata and Creating Derived Data Elements provides learners with the versioning rules required to maintain well-formed metadata. The specification for curating derived data elements using the CDE Curation Tool is provided.

Credit for the Course: In order to receive credit for this course, you will need to register for course 1040 by contacting NCI CBIIT Application Support and obtain a score of 80% or higher on the 1042 accompanying quiz.

Objectives:

• List and describe three types of versioning
• Apply versioning rules to use cases
• Discuss how versioning a single metadata item can affect the associated metadata
• Define Derived Data Element
• Discuss derivation rules for metadata
• Distinguish between a non-derived and derived data element
• Follow the process for creating Derived Data Elements and identify best practices

Prerequisites:

• 1000 Introduction to Semantic Metadata
• 1010 Introduction to Metadata in the caDSR
• 1020 Using the CDE Browser
• 1030 Introduction to Enterprise Vocabulary Services (EVS)
• 1041 Creating Well-formed Metadata in caDSR

Applicable Roles:

Context Administrator
Forms Builder
Metadata Analyst
Metadata Curator Using Forms
Metadata Curator Using UML Models

Reference Documents and Links:

• caDSR Training Home Page
• caDSR Business Rules
• caDSR_Users ListServ Subscription (http://list.nih.gov)
• Send request for caDSR training account to NCI CBIIT Application Support