The Code4Lib Journal – Shining a Light on Scientific Data: Building a Data Catalog to Foster Data Sharing and Reuse

"The scientific community’s growing eagerness to make research data available to the public provides libraries — with our expertise in metadata and discovery — an interesting new opportunity. This paper details the in-house creation of a “data catalog” which describes datasets ranging from population-level studies like the US Census to small, specialized datasets created by researchers at our own institution."