Proposal for a Common Conceptual Schema for Metadata Integration and Reuse Across Diverse Scientific Domains

Marcos Sunye, Karolayne Lima, Alberto Abelló, Elisabete Ferreira

2025

Abstract

Addresses challenges in reusing scientific data, highlighting the necessity for enhanced metadata standards to facilitate data integration across various scientific domains. The primary contribution is a standardized conceptual schema for metadata, designed to improve data integration and reuse. This schema outlines the phenomena and methods in scientific research to enable better identification and integration of datasets. The schema was synthesized by analyzing four well-established metadata standards: DataCite, Darwin Core, Ecological Meta-data Language, and Dublin Core. This analysis aimed to identify semantic correspondences among these standards to create a unified conceptual schema. The analysis validated the practicality of the proposed schema. More than 11% of the 926 metadata elements analyzed were successfully integrated, demonstrating significant potential to improve data integration across different scientific domains. The proposed common conceptual schema for metadata improves data integration and reuse in scientific research. By introducing structured descriptions of phenomena and methods, it facilitates the discovery of relationships between datasets, promoting integrated and interdisciplinary reuse without additional metadata creation costs.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Sunye M., Lima K., Abelló A. and Ferreira E. (2025). Proposal for a Common Conceptual Schema for Metadata Integration and Reuse Across Diverse Scientific Domains. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS; ISBN 978-989-758-749-8, SciTePress, pages 278-285. DOI: 10.5220/0013291500003929

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis25,
author={Marcos Sunye and Karolayne Lima and Alberto Abelló and Elisabete Ferreira},
title={Proposal for a Common Conceptual Schema for Metadata Integration and Reuse Across Diverse Scientific Domains},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS},
year={2025},
pages={278-285},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013291500003929},
isbn={978-989-758-749-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS
TI - Proposal for a Common Conceptual Schema for Metadata Integration and Reuse Across Diverse Scientific Domains
SN - 978-989-758-749-8
AU - Sunye M.
AU - Lima K.
AU - Abelló A.
AU - Ferreira E.
PY - 2025
SP - 278
EP - 285
DO - 10.5220/0013291500003929
PB - SciTePress