The CIDOC CRM is a formal ontology designed to be used as a global schema for describing and integrating metadata about museum collections [14].
The evaluation shows two things: First, collaboration is a success factor when it comes to establishing effective business metadata management and integrating metadata with enterprise systems, and second, semantic wikis are well suited to realizing business metadata repositories.
Several tools have been developed to integrate metadata and sequence data, allowing downstream comparative analyses of different datasets using a number of ecological indices.
It has the capacity to create new analysis schemes 'on the fly' and integrate metadata (source, geographic distribution, clinical presentation).
Similarly, integrating metadata in BIOM formatted files, ideally based on standards such as MIxS and ISA-TAB, will facilitate meta-analysis across different data types.
Procedures for the integration of datasets included: creating a flexible database design; authoring and integrating metadata; documenting data provenance; quantifying spatial measures of geographic data; quality-controlling integrated and derived data; and extensively documenting the database.
Importantly, it also supports integrating metadata, such as clinical, phenotypic and other attribute information.
It would be possible, however, to rapidly build a well-curated database integrating other metadata such as, for example, disease manifestation and patient information, including patient genome data.
We used an improved bioinformatics pipeline designed to rapidly process and analyze whole-genome data and integrate strain metadata.
The model integrates descriptive and content analysis metadata for multimedia documents, to support the automatic indexing and retrieval tasks.
