Baseline infrastructure

Findable - Challenges

• lack of key research oriented metadata (units, interpretations, ETC)
• lack of project management metadata (variable domain/subdomain, censor status)
• metadata may be in machine unfriendly formats (pdf, word, doc)
• complex metadata that vary within variable by country, year or strata (mortality censorship by certain countries)
• No established way to link complex metadata to data

Step 1: Standardization (F1,F2, F3)

• enforce strict variable naming convention (F1.)
• create more comprehensive codebooks (F2.)
• link codebooks to datasets that capture by country, by year, by strata complexities (F3.)

Step 2: User Interface (F4)

• Compile standardized data into a single database
• Create a user interface for users to interact with our SALURBAL database (F4)

Improve Findability - action items

• (F1) enforce unique variable level identifiers
• (F2) create comprehensive codebooks which contain additional research focused and project related metadata
• (F3) link complex metadata to data via identifiers, country and year
• (F4) web application to search and access standardize data/codebooks