FAQ: Metadata

• Q

  What is the META-SHARE metadata model?

  A

  The model covers the following resource and media types:

  corpora (text, audio, video, multimodal/multimedia corpora incl. sensorimotor resources, n-gram resources),

  lexical/conceptual resources (e.g. computational lexica, ontologies, machine-readable dictionaries, terminological resources, thesauri, multimodal/ multimedia lexica and dictionaries, etc.)

  language descriptions (e.g. computational grammars)

  technologies (tools/services) that can be used for the processing of data resources.

  Detailed documentation on the metadata model is to be found in the META-SHARE Metadata User Manual. 

• Q

  What type of metadata do I have to use?

  A

  For a general description please see here.

  For the Manual of the META-SHARE metadata schema see here.
  

• Q

  Are metadata descriptions freely available to anyone or do they come under a restrictive licence?

  A

  META-SHARE metadata are licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution Unported (CC-BY) version 4.0 or the EU Open Metadata Licence. All META-SHARE members and associate members are obliged to allow the harvesting of their metadata.