FAIRsharing record for: FAIR Principles F3: Metadata clearly and explicitly include the identifier of the data they describe

This FAIRsharing record describes: 'FAIR Principles F3: Metadata clearly and explicitly include the identifier of the data they describe' is concerned with the identification of described resource within metadata when that metadata is separated from the actual resource it describes. The F3 principle states that any description of a digital resource must contain clearly and explicitly the identifier of that resource being described. This is especially important where the resource and its metadata are stored independently, but are nonetheless persistently linked. Descriptors should explicitly state which resources it describes; but even more than this, digital objects may have structures that disallow the addition of new fields, including fields that could point to the metadata about that resource. Therefore, sometimes the only consistent way for both humans and machines to discover the metadata of a resource is through a search for the identifier of that resource. Although implementation of each principle is up to each community, a note about the GO-FAIR Foundation's interpretation of this principle: that when FAIR principle F3 mentions that the identifier of the object should be explicitly and clearly included in the object's metadata, the GO-FAIR Foundation's interpretation assumes "explicit" refers to the mere presence of the resource's identifier in the content of the metadata record while "clear" refers to having this identifier directly and unambiguously related to the metadata record by means of a known predicate. (Text modified from: see reference URL.)

本FAIRsharing记录阐述如下内容：FAIR原则F3：元数据需清晰且明确地包含其所描述数据的标识符。该原则针对当元数据与其所描述的实际资源相分离时，如何在元数据内识别被描述资源的场景。F3原则规定，对任一数字资源的描述均需清晰且明确地包含所描述资源的标识符。当资源与其元数据独立存储但仍需保持持久关联时，这一点尤为关键。元数据描述项需明确标注其所描述的资源；但更重要的是，部分数字对象的结构不允许新增字段，包括可指向该资源元数据的字段。因此，有时人类与机器唯一能保持一致地检索到某一资源元数据的方式，就是通过该资源的标识符进行搜索。尽管各原则的落地实施由各社区自行决定，但此处需说明GO-FAIR基金会对本原则的解读：当FAIR原则F3提及需在对象元数据中明确且清晰地包含对象标识符时，GO-FAIR基金会的解读将"明确"理解为仅需在元数据记录的内容中包含资源标识符，而"清晰"则指该标识符需通过已知谓词与元数据记录建立直接且无歧义的关联。（文本修改自：详见参考链接。）