Work

Legal metadata standards

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Deliverable D3.6.2 (Clusters of agrosystems data in accordance with relevant legal categories) revealed significant differences in licensing practices, access restrictions, data protection considerations and regulatory obligations among FAIRagro’s Research Data Infrastructures (RDIs). Deliverable D3.6.3 builds on this by addressing the need to represent the legal properties of agrosystem data in a uniform, machine-readable standard that supports FAIR data principles and integrates consistently across the heterogeneous RDIs. Three main application areas emerged from the analysis, each with distinct requirements for metadata standardisation: Licences, which express the rights and obligations of reuse; data access, which describes access conditions or restrictions; and regulatory requirements, which document obligations arising from legal frameworks such as the Nagoya Protocol. This document represents Version 1 (22 December 2025) and should be regarded as a living document, subject to ongoing refinement and updates, especially those resulting from the planned workshop “Legal Metadata in FDOs and Infrastructures of Plant Sciences”.

Source: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18047067

Authors: Scheuner, Carmen, Breß, Constantin, Lesch, Stephan

Institutions: Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz, FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure

Language: English

Topic: Research Data Management Practices

Subfield: Information Systems

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Zero hunger

Open Access status: green

Funder: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft