Metadata is key to framing the context of the research data and can sometimes be part of the research data itself. The Metadata Standards Catalog (MSC), maintained by the RDA Metadata Standards Catalog Working Group, hosts more than one hundred descriptions of metadata standards, along with tools, mappings, and organisations that aim to help researchers choose the most suitable metadata standard to describe research data belonging to projects, repositories and catalogues. In the context of the Cultural Heritage domain, we examined the consistency and evaluated the MSC subject domains with a view to enriching the Catalog with the metadata standards widely used by the Cultural Heritage research community. In addition, we investigated whether the MSC could play a role in guiding researchers to include relevant citation information in their project metadata, disciplinary metadata and dataset metadata, thereby fostering cross-disciplinary information integration while proving, at the same time, how citation can act as a FAIR-enabling factor. Part of A FAIR-enabling citation model for Cultural Heritage Objects project activities.

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101017536 and is supported by the EOSC Future (https://eoscfuture.eu/) through the RDA (https://www.rd-alliance.org/) Open Call mechanism (https://eoscfuture-grants.eu/provider/research-data-alliance), based on evaluations of external, independent experts.