On May 5, 2026, an online training seminar titled “Creating Metadata for Research Data: Quality, Standards, and Documentation” was organized by the Higher Education and Science IT Shared Services Center” (VPC). The event brought together more than 100 participants, including data curators, researchers, doctoral students, library specialists, and other interested attendees from the Latvian scientific community. Participants explored issues related to the creation of high-quality metadata and its use in improving the visibility and discoverability of research data and other research outputs. The role of ontologies and the Semantic Web was also explained. The FAIR principles served as the central theme of the seminar. The seminar was led by Edurads Skvireckis, a digital humanities specialist and data architect at the National Library of Latvia, lecturer at University of Latvia who shared his knowledge, experience, and practical recommendations.
The seminar presenter kindly shared the training materials on the GitHub platform here.
The presentations demonstrated during the webinar are also available here (in Latvian):
1st Session. Findable – Metadata as the Foundation for Data Discovery
2nd Session. Accessible and Interoperable – How Machines Access Metadata
3rd Session. I + R – Linked Data, Vocabularies, and RDF
4th Session. Reusable in Practice – Licensing, Data origin, Domain Standards, and SPARQL
The recording of the webinar is available here (in Latvian):
