F3. Resource Identifier in Metadata

metric

What is being measured? Whether the metadata document contains the globally unique and persistent identifier for the digital resource.

Principle: F

Rationale: Why should we measure it? The discovery of digital object should be possible from its metadata. For this to happen, the metadata must explicitly contain the identifier for the digital resource it describes, and this should be present in the form of a qualified reference, indicating some manner of "about" relationship, to distinguish this identifier from the numerous others that will be present in the metadata. In addition, since many digital objects cannot be arbitrarily extended to include references to their metadata, in many cases the only means to discover the metadata related to a digital object will be to search based on the GUID of the digital object itself.

FAIR Metrics: F3 - metadata clearly and explicitly include the identifier of the data it describes

URL(s):

• https://github.com/FAIRMetrics/Metrics/blob/master/Distributions/FM_F3.tex

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