Ideally, bibliographic metadata should be created in accordance with a metadata standard. It increases the discoverability and identifiability of publications for both humans and machines.

Bibliographic metadata include:

• Title(s) of the work (be it an article, a contribution, a book, or a book-chapter).
• Title(s) of the publication in which the work appears; for an article: the journal; for a contribution / bookchapter: the book; for a volume in a series: the series.
• Full names and institutional affiliations of the author(s).
• Abstract(s).
• Keywords (controlled or free-text).
• Publisher name.
• Publication date.
• International standard numbers (ISSN, eISSN, ISBN etc.).
• Persistent identifiers for the publication (DOI), authors and contributors (ORCID), author affiliations (ROR), and funding organisations (ROR), as well as other relevant persistent identifiers.

More information on metadata and related training materials

You can find further and more detailed information on the EDCH website.

You can find training materials on the EDCH training platform