It’s looking like the library might be involved in curating and sharing research data associated with UC’s research outputs. It’s complicated and messy, which is why the report on structured metadata, produced by the Resource Discovery Librarians is so valuable. It lays out some of the options for how we might structure the metadata describing research data, and makes some recommendations for how we proceed. You can take a look yourself, here:

K:\LIBR-Library\Info-Resources\Resource-Discovery\UCResearchData_RDL report on structured metadata.pdf