Improving the accessibility and re-use of environmental models through provision of model metadata : a scoping study

This poster presents the results of a scoping study funded under a recent Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Environmental Data Call. The work was undertaken by the British Geological Survey (Nottinghamshire, UK) in collaboration with HR Wallingford (Oxfordshire, UK). This investigation was designed to better understand the problem that whilst the input data used for modelling frequently has metadata data available, and metadata is often routinely created for the datasets created by modelling, there was perceived to be a lack of schemes and systems to record metadata about the modelling process itself. From this analysis gaps in metadata provision were identified, and recommendations for further work to address these were identified.