As scientific research increasingly adopts open science practices, data reuse becomes paramount. However, despite advances in Internet search tools over the decades, the precise and atypical needs of astrobiology researchers make it difficult to find astrobiology datasets relevant to a conceived investigation. remains difficult to find.
In response, we developed the Astrobiology Resource Metadata Standard (ARMS). It is a metadata standard designed to uniformly describe astrobiology “resources” – virtually all the products of astrobiology research. These resources include datasets, physical samples, software (modeling codes and scripts), publications, websites, images, videos, presentations, and more.
ARMS was developed to describe astrobiology resources produced by individual scientists or small science teams, rather than large mission teams that would need to use more complex archival metadata schemes. Ta. Below, we describe the participatory development process, provide an overview of the metadata standard, discuss its current usage in practice, and conclude with a discussion of additional possible uses and enhancements.
Sean R. Wolfe, Barbara Lafuente, Richard M. Keller, Angela M. Detwiler, Thomas F. Bristow, Mary N. Parenteau, Kevin Boydstan, Christopher E. Dateo, David J. de Marais, Linda L. Janke, Sarah Rojo, Nathan Stone, and Mark Vorobetz.
Astrobiology. 2024 Feb;24(2):131-137. doi: 10.1089/ast.2023.0067.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38393827/
astrobiology