Metadata guidance

Metadata should be an easily understood description of your data. Find out more about what metadata are .

There are many subject specific metadata standards with their own guidelines. The Digital Curation Centre offers further guidance about disciplinary metadata standards .

Readme files are useful for information that does not fit a standard format. It can be entered as free text. Find our more about Readme files and how to create them .

Electronic Research Notebooks (ERNs) can be a helpful researcher tool. They can help record processes making metadata for files easier to create.