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CompiledMetadata

Definition:

The metadata object that results from the combination of global metadata and directory- and file-level metadata files according to the rules of inheritance.

Properties:

Property Value Description
fields {'name': 'required', 'description': 'required', 'variableMeasured': 'required', 'author': 'recommended', 'citation': 'recommended', 'license': 'recommended', 'funder': 'recommended', 'url': 'recommended', 'identifier': 'recommended', 'privacyPolicy': 'recommended', 'keywords': 'recommended'} Set of key/value pairs defining the fields that are expected to occur in a given file object, and whether they are required or recommended.
namespace http://schema.org/ URL identifying the required namespace to be used for required fields in the file object. Namespaces are web prefixes that point to ontologies which contain definitions of semantic vocabularies.
jsonld True Indicator for whether the given file object is required to be a valid JSON-LD object.
containsAllColumns True The metadata object, after all inherited sidecars are accounted for, must contain a 'variableMeasured' property listing at least all of the column headers found in the datafile at hand.