Metadata
The description or metadata of the data allow reliable and permanent online discoverability of the data by searching, for example, JYX, Google Dataset Search or Tiedejatutkimus.fi. Basic descriptive or metadata refers to the minimum basic information about the content, actors and availability of the data (e.g. name, authors, rights holder, abstract, subject headings, date of collection, availability, licence), which is published at the appropriate stage of the research, either without or alongside the data.
The metadata will meet FAIR criteria when published by an established, standardised machine-readable description language description catalogue such as JYX or Etsin. The publication service provides the researcher with the tools to compile the descriptor. They, in turn, are experts on their data and know how to describe it in a way that matches the data and is informative.
Metadata is opened in JYU by describing it in the research data section of Converis and publishing it in the JYX publication repository - OR by publishing it with the data in another FAIR-compliant repository or archive.
Always publish the metadata for your data, even if you have a justified reason not to publish the data itself. This will provide the university and its departments with valuable information about where its data is stored or has been published. The publication of metadata also covers the requirements of funders for transparency of data where there is a legitimate barrier to disclosure of the data itself, such as personal data or other sensitivity or confidentiality.