Table 1 FDMM Metrics Indicators.

From: The Journey to a FAIR CORE DATA SET for Diabetes Research in Germany

Indicator ID

Indicator

Priority

RDA-F1-01M

Metadata is identified by a persistent identifier

Essential

RDA-F1-02M

Metadata is identified by a globally unique identifier

Essential

RDA-F2-01M

Rich metadata is provided to allow discovery

Essential

RDA-F3-01M

Metadata includes the identifier for the data

Essential

RDA-F4-01M

Metadata is offered in such a way that it can be harvested and indexed

Essential

RDA-A1-01M

Metadata contains information to enable the user to get access to the data

Important

RDA-A1-02M

Metadata can be accessed manually (i.e. with human intervention)

Essential

RDA-A1-03M

Metadata identifier resolves to a metadata record

Essential

RDA-A1-04M

Metadata is accessed through standardized protocol

Essential

RDA-A1.1-01M

Metadata is accessible through a free access protocol

Essential

RDA-A2-01M

Metadata is guaranteed to remain available after data is no longer available

Essential

RDA-I1-01M

Metadata uses knowledge representation expressed in standardized format

Important

RDA-I1-02M

Metadata uses machine-understandable knowledge representation

Important

RDA-I2-01M

Metadata uses FAIR-compliant vocabularies

Important

RDA-I3-01M

Metadata includes references to other metadata

Important

RDA-I3-02M

Metadata includes references to other data

Useful

RDA-I3-03M

Metadata includes qualified references to other metadata

Important

RDA-I3-04M

Metadata include qualified references to other data

Useful

RDA-R1-01M

Plurality of accurate and relevant attributes are provided to allow reuse

Essential

RDA-R1.1-01M

Metadata includes information about the licence under which the data can be reused

Essential

RDA-R1.1-02M

Metadata refers to a standard reuse licence

Important

RDA-R1.1-03M

Metadata refers to a machine-understandable reuse licence

Important

RDA-R1.2-01M

Metadata includes provenance information according to community-specific standards

Important

RDA-R1.2-02M

Metadata includes provenance information according to a cross-community language

Useful

RDA-R1.3-01M

Metadata complies with a community standard

Essential

RDA-R1.3-02M

Metadata is expressed in compliance with a machine-understandable community standard

Essential