• Introduction
• Target Audience
• What this book is (and what it isn't)
• A note on the method
• 'Open Research Data' - what and why?
• What do we mean by 'Research Data'
• What does it mean to make research data 'open'?
• What are the benefits? Carrots and Sticks.
• Where to publish data?
• Repositories
• Supplementary Files
• Field Guides
• How to publish data?
• Formats
• Keeping it Simple
• Licensing
• Choosing a license: the options
• Metadata
• Data Preservation and DMPs
• Data Management Plans
• Discoverability
• Get the data out there!
• Advice for Institutions and Funders
• I'm a Funder - what can I do to promote open research data?
• I'm an Institution - what can I do to support my open scientists?
• User Experience Stories
• Creator Experience Stories

Meta Data

Keep the data with the metadata

Metadata enhances discoverability of your data

Tools exist to generate metadata from your data (eg. Apache Tika),  for example to extract EXIF metadata from photos.