Create and publish a dataset description

A dataset contains information about the objects in your collection information system. A dataset description tells you what is in the dataset, where to find the dataset and under what conditions you may use it. So it is a description of your dataset, not the dataset itself.

As a heritage organization, you create and publish a dataset description yourself. On the website of the Digital Heritage Network, you can read step by step how to create a dataset description.

Do you work with an NDE-compatible collection information system? Then you can create a dataset description directly in your system and register it from there with the Dataset Register. Can your system not do this yet? Then contact your supplier.

Do you not have an NDE-compatible collection information system yet? Then use the online form to create a dataset description. Then publish it, for example via your own website. The functional administrator of your website can do this for you.

After publication, you register your dataset description with the Dataset Register via the online registration form. Once the dataset description is included, people, search engines and other software applications can find it.

Need help? Contact a data workshop.