Users should be able to download DATS metadata from Export Metadata pulldown

[jggautier]

Users should be able to download DATS metadata from the Export Metadata pulldown in each dataset Metadata tab:

DATS specification and examples: https://github.com/biocaddie/WG3-MetadataSpecifications

[pdurbin]

My comment at #3697 (comment) applies to this issue as well.

[pdurbin]

@jggautier fast forward five years and we have many more export formats:

However, we still don't have DATS. Who wants DATS? Who or which installations are going to be excited if we implement this? I looked through issues and the mailing list and couldn't find any hits for DATS. Maybe you're right. Maybe we should code this up. I see "biocaddie" and "bio" make me think of this issue (so maybe we should work on it? I don't know):

• Spike: Discovery about integrating biomedical vocabularies into dataverse #8681

In short, I feel like this issue could use some champions or it should be closed with "not right now, maybe later".

[jggautier]

I wish I had added more information in this GitHub issue about why I opened this issue in the first place. Why Dataverse repositories should export metadata in the DATS standard.

Someone taking this issue up might investigate it more, answering questions such as will exporting DATS metadata improve discoverability and interoperability? Would it help with data migration? And when would it? Are there discovery systems and other repositories that are interested and are able now or plan to be able to import or export metadata in the DATS standard?

More generally I'm not sure about closing an issue only because no one's working on it now.

[jggautier]

Reviewing articles about searching for biomedical data across repositories, I ran into a 2017 article about DataMed, "a prototype biomedical data search engine." Its goal is to help others more easily discover datasets in many data repositories and data aggregators. It's at https://datamed.org.

The team running the search engine hand picked several repositories and there's a form to let them know about other sources to consider indexing data from. One of the requirements for being indexed in that search engine is that repositories must make dataset metadata available in their DATS model.

Though this issue is about adding a DATS metadata export option to the Export Metadata pulldown, in Dataverse doing that would usually involve making that metadata export available in other ways, too, such as through API calls and over OAI-PMH.

So maybe this issue should be broadened to be about Dataverse exporting metadata in the DATS model in the various ways that Dataverse already does, and contacting the DataMed team to see if they're interested in indexing metadata from Dataverse repositories. Part of their process for inclusion involves an evaluation of user demand for the repository's holdings.

[cmbz]

2024/09/09: Keeping, related to GREI harvesting and search/browse