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Research Data Management at Carleton

Writing Documentation and Metadata

Guide to Writing "Read Me" Style Metadata
From the Research Data Management Services group at Cornell University.
Data Documentation
University of Minnesota's guide to data documentation and metadata.
Best practices for metadata (from ICPSR)
Best practices for writing metadata.
ICPSR Guide to Codebooks
A pdf guide to writing codebooks from the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (out of the University of Michigan).

Metadata Standards

Data Documentation Initiative