Catalogue of Catalogues: Discoverability, Interoperability and Smart Data Research UK
The UK's research data landscape is one of its greatest national assets — but only if it can be found, understood and trusted. Fragmented holdings, inconsistent standards and slow onboarding still get in the way of the discoveries this data could power.
Join MetadataWorks and Smart Data Research UK for a practical, hour-long look at the new SDR UK Metadata Catalogue: a federated, UK-wide layer that makes research datasets discoverable across organisations — a catalogue of catalogues, rather than another data silo. You'll get practical, usable advice for your data projects. We'll show you how a researcher moves from a research question to candidate datasets in real time, hear what the team learned building it, and understand how your organisation's data, and your people, can be part of what comes next.
What we'll cover:
- Why traditional discovery models break down, and what changes when discovery is federated
- The design principles behind the catalogue: discoverability, standards, and interoperability
- A live walkthrough — from research question to candidate datasets
- Roadmap, lessons learned, and how to list your data or join the working groups shaping the next release
For data users, chief data officers, heads of data, information-governance leads, and data-strategy teams across UK public-sector organisations responsible for making data findable, governed, and re-usable at scale.