Ingest a Metadata Document

MetaStore will not provide plain text files. As only JSON and XML are supported the metadata documents have to fulfill a given (JSON/XML) schema. The GUI has full support of JSON and XML documents.

Ingredients

(local) MetaStore instance
Web Browser
Already registered schema (see ‘Schema Management’)
Data related to the metadata

Work Steps (Summary)

Ingest a metadata document

Step 1: Check if schema is already registered?
Step 2: Select registered schema
Step 3: Create metadata document

Step 1: Check if schema is already registered?

If the schema your metadata document should use is not already registered please have a look at chapter ‘Select/create a Schema’.

Step 2: Select registered schema

Note the ‘Schema Record Identifier’ of selected schema.

Step3: Create metadata document

Fortunately the GUI of MetaStore supports users to input metadata document.

Select tab ‘Metadata Management’
Click on ‘Register new metadata document’
Fill form like seen below

Notes:

If no authentication is made, all users are registered as ‘SELF’. Otherwise the one who registers the schema gets the administration rights.
Identifier is optional and if given it has to be unique. (If no identifier is specified it will be set to a UUID.)
It’s recommended to use a URL as identifier for the related resource.
Select previously noted ‘Schema Record Identifier’ as schema identifier.

The record may be filled like this:

Click on ‘Validate’ to check the provided settings. If validation was successful the tab header will be greened:

Now you can switch to ‘Metadata Document’ tab to insert metadata document from scratch (if not uploaded a file in beforehand). The editor look like this (blank document):