FAIRsharing record for: FAIR Metric – F2 - Metadata – discovery-oriented metadata fields

This FAIRsharing record describes: This metric evaluates whether metadata includes key descriptive elements that support discovery. F2 expects an identifier and evaluates the metadata the identifier points to for the presence of a set of core/generic fields that aid discovery. Note that F2 is concerned with discoverability only, as opposed to domain-specific completeness or reusability (which are addressed by other FAIR Principles, e.g. R1.3). This metric checks for the presence of essential discovery-enabling fields in one of a set of common formats (specifically schema.org JSON-LD, DataCite XML, or DC XML). This metric evaluates the resolved metadata for the inclusion of all of the following fields: title, contributor names, summary/abstract/description, and free text tags. Although knowing what fields major search engines use to drive discovery is challenging, these metadata elements are likely to be key to discovery and are often ignored by metrics for other FAIR principles.