Metadata governance for research infrastructure recovery: a Ukrainian case study

This poster presents the policy-document analysis stage of the project “Metadata Mapping for Scientific Instruments in Ukraine”, which investigates how scientific equipment can be represented through FAIR, interoperable and recovery-oriented metadata in the Ukrainian Research Information System (URIS). The analysis used 32 core policy documents and 1,677 normalised-text evidence units to examine how scientific equipment is represented in policy discourse, identify metadata-governance gaps relevant to research-infrastructure recovery, and translate the findings into candidate metadata requirements. The results show that scientific equipment is visible in policy documents, while instrument-level metadata remain comparatively weakly operationalised. Metadata-related problems occur within a broader governance environment involving funding, documentation, coordination, access and responsibility. The analysis therefore supports a lifecycle-aware instrument record that distinguishes identity, physical condition, operability, location, access, responsibility, lifecycle and funding, provenance, and interoperability. Presented at the Research Data Alliance 27th Plenary Meeting (RDA P27), London, United Kingdom, 6–8 October 2026. Poster No. 51. Project information:https://www.tib.eu/en/research-development/project-overview/project-summary/metadata-mapping-for-scientific-instruments-in-ukraine