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existing metadata. Publications include information on how a dataset is
being used (e.g. variable transformation), what a dataset is being used for
(e.g. topics or methodology), and who has used the dataset. All this
information is useful to help data user better understand and discover
datasets relevant for their research.
Therefore, the INEXDA metadata schema contains an item that provides
information on scientific publications relating to the registered dataset.
Publications listed here may also include descriptions of datasets (e.g.
technical reports, data reports, or user guides) which are publicly available.
Example: Bade, M., Flory, J. and T. Schönberg (2016). SHS-Base, Data Report
2016-02 - Metadata Version 1-1. Deutsche Bundesbank Data and Service
Centre.

3. Conclusion
The relevance of metadata also becomes clear in connection with the re-
use and corresponding citation of the data. Bibliometrical methods, which
should make the performance of data production measurable similar to the
impact factors in text publications, are based on metadata. In addition to the
bibliographic and content information, these metadata should also include a
persistent identifier (so called PID) that enables the identification and
localization of the used data uniquely and permanently. There are now a
number of services that offer the allocation of PIDs in the form of Digital Object
Identifiers (DOI) for research data. The German Leibniz Institutes GESIS and
ZBW are offering a special service for the assignment of DOI names for social
and economic data.

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