Provide MetaData for Biodiversity Research

To adress questions about the future of biodiversity, it is essential to use a wide range of data from different sources. This is only possible, if the relevant datasets can be found, accessed, and understood through the metadata accompanying them. To promote this essential open data culture, the FAIR data principle was launched (https://www.force11.org/group/fairgroup/fairprinciples), which is gaining traktion throughout the scientific community. With this increasing need and use for FAIR data, metadata, and it's quality, plays an ever increasing role. Nevertheless, providing metadata is not easily accomplished. One of the reasons for this is the cumbersome way of entering metadata in formats or webforms needed by repositories. Also, there is little or no quality control. Finally, the metadata schemes used by the repositories are either restricted to bibliometric metadata (e.g. DataCite) or are using metadata schemes which have to cover a vast diversity of different data (e.g. EML or Darwin Core). I will present an approach which uses domain specific metadata schemes to overcome these problems, by developing these schemes together with scientists of their domain. It can be employed without detailed technical knowledge, e.g. using spreadsheets and a web browser. This will help researchers recognise the value of metadata for their own research and sharing. The provided validation tool increases quality of metadata