Developing a sustainable training resource for understanding metadata

For a number of years, CLOSER has been organising and delivering metadata training events related to, or specifically on, DDI. The major challenge has been a “knowledge gap” on what metadata actually is and why it is important to managing and sharing data, especially with the advent of FAIR, which is itself not well understood.Over the last year, CLOSER has been developing a training resource (openly available on GitHub), which seeks to address these issues. The training breaks subjects into Introductory and Foundational modules, which can act as base knowledge for a wide range of audiences - post-graduate researchers, junior data managers and others - to understand the need for, and lay the basis for, engaging with DDI and other metadata standards.