The LifeWatch Italy Metadata Catalogue (https://metadatacatalogue.lifewatchitaly.eu) is a standard-based information management system based on GeoNetwork 4.2.2, designed and implemented to enable access to several resources from a variety of external providers, that are represented in the Catalogue as “groups”, through descriptive metadata, enhancing and promoting the information exchange and sharing among organisations and research infrastructures.
Its main goal is to increase collaboration within and among organisations for reducing duplication and enhancing information consistency and quality and to improve the accessibility of a wide variety of resources along with the associated information, organised and documented in a standard and consistent way.
Moreover, the LifeWatch Italy Metadata Catalogue allows (upon validation and verification) the creation of Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for resources that do not have it, by exploiting the GeoNetwork – DataCite connection.
It allows to manage metadata related to six kinds of resources: Datasets, Research Site, Services, Training Resources, Virtual Research Environments (VREs), and Workflows.