Suggested Metadata Standard

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A recommendation for the format of the data is Project Open Data, which is a Federal standard for structuring and sharing open data. This leads to a suggested metadata schema of:

• Title: Human-readable name of the asset. Should be in plain English and include sufficient detail to facilitate search and discovery
• Description: Human-readable description (e.g., an abstract) with sufficient detail to enable a user to quickly understand whether the asset is of interest.
• Keyword: Tags help users discover your dataset; please include terms that would be used by technical and non-technical users.
• Modified: Most recent date on which the dataset was changed, updated or modified.
• Publisher: The publishing entity and optionally their parent organization(s).
• Contact Name and Email: Contact person’s name and email for the asset.
• Identifier: A unique identifier for the dataset or API as maintained within an Agency catalog or database.
• Public Access Level: The degree to which this dataset could be made publicly available, regardless of whether it has been made available. Choices: public (Data asset is or could be made publicly available to all without restrictions), restricted public (Data asset is available under certain use restrictions), or non-public (Data asset is not available to members of the public).
• Bureau Code: Federal agencies, combined agency and bureau code from OMB Circular A-11, Appendix C (PDF, CSV) i

n the format of 015:11.