Metadata to Increase Discoverability

Adding metadata allows you to increase the discoverability of your work on the OSF. For more information on Adding Metadata to your work please see our help guides below: 

• Add Metadata to Your OSF Project

  Enhance the information OSF stores and shares about your project through the creation of additional metadata

• Add Metadata to Your OSF Registration

  Enhance the information OSF stores and shares about your registration through the creation of additional metadata

• Add Metadata to a file on OSF

  Metadata can be added to individual files on the OSF to help identify, discover, and facilitate reuse

• Resource Types in OSF

  OSF Projects, Registrations, and Files can be described with information about the kind of material you are sharing

• Persistent Identifiers (PIDs)

  Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) are persistent, externally maintained links that provide permanent availability to information about people, places, and things.

• Community Metadata templates using CEDAR

Using the CEDAR metadata tool, research communities have created metadata standards to help

the discoverability of similar research material in a field.

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