BatCAT deliverable 4.2: Report on data stewardship and good practice

This report outlines the governance framework for data stewardship in BatCAT (Task 4.6). It sets practical rules for handling project data and metadata, complementing schema development (in T4.2), data landscape mapping (in T4.3), and ontology development (in T4.4). The proposed framework defines minimal metadata kernels per record type, a metadata-change workflow, PID management based on Handles system. Integrity and consistency checks are addressed through validation against the BatCAT PID profile. The deliverable emphasizes alignment with community recommendations (FAIR, EMMC, RDA).