Metadata and Data Management Tools

Morpho

Metadata management using Morpho. Morpho allows scientists to create metadata, (i.e. describe their data in a standardized format), and create a catalog of data and metadata upon which to query, edit and view data collections in order to improve local organization of a scientist’s data. Morpho can be used without a network connection to accommodate data management at remote field sites, and it also can access Metacat servers on the network in order to share data with colleagues, and find and retrieve relevant ecological data from the broader community. Morpho supports a wide variety of users in North America and other countries, and includes a metadata editing interface that has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, French, and Japanese. The metadata it collects is based on Ecological Metadata Language, but it can also export metadata to other common specifications like the Biological Data Profile. DataONE is adapting Morpho to be used as a metadata and data management tool that can create and curate metadata and data on any of the DataONE compliant Member Nodes.

Metacat web registry

Web forms.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Numbers 083094 and 1430508.

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