Metadata models & schemas

Version 6.1 by lzehl on 2021/02/18 17:38

The openMINDS metadata models all consist of modular connectable metadata schemas. Each schema can be referenced by it's type and defines properties (including their expected value) for a set of related metadata.

Please find the HTML description for all schemas of each openMINDS metadata model in the corresponding sub-pages. A short overview for each openMINDS metadata model can be found below.

Note that all metadata models are licensed under the MIT license.

openMINDS core

The openMINDS core metadata model contains schemas that can be used to describe the general origin, resource location, and content of research products in the field of neuroscience. Currently this metadata model comprises 37 usable schemas:

Affiliation
ContactInformation
Contribution
Organization
Person
ContentType
Copyright
FileBundle
FileInstance
FileRepository
Hash
License
DigitalIdentifier
DigitalIdentifierSchema
Funding
QuantitativeValue
QuantitativeValueRange
Dataset
DatasetVersion
MetaDataModel
MetaDataModelVersion
Model
ModelVersion
Project
Software
SoftwareVersion
ParameterSetting
Protocol
ProtocolExecution
Subject
SubjectGroup
SubjectGroupState
SubjectState
TissueSample
TissueSampleCollection
TissueSampleCollectionState
TissueSampleState

openMINDS SANDS

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openMINDS controlledTerms

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openMINDS instances

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