SoBigData.it: datasets metadata census

SoBigData.it groups some of the Italian laboratories that are working on big data. The partners want to build a European Research Infrastructure for big data and social analytics through the European Project SoBigData.eu. One of the main bricks of a research infrastructure is a data catalog where the users of the infrastructure can search for available datasets. In order to anticipate the activities of the European project, we decided to start a census of the datasets available among the partners. We decided to define a collection of metadata fields to: describe the datasets; build a dataset census in order to collect the metadata about datasets; part of the information collected can be published on the website.