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## About this project
To save researchers noticeable routine work in creating metadata in the medium term, the SFB 1280 INF project developed the SFB 1280 Metadata App. The MetaDataApp is a Java application that allows researchers to easily store metadata as local json files along with research data using an inheritance strategy. It allows the input of SFB 1280 metadata, as well as the mandatory DublinCore and DataCite metadata that have no mapping to SFB 1280 metadata.
The MetaDataApp will store the entries in a json file format that allows further use in a database (see related project: [SFB 1280 DatabaseApp](https://gitlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/sfb1280/databaseapp)) and other repositories. Json is a well-established data-interchange format that can be transformed easily in any pipeline regardless of programming language use. The [SFB 1280 DatabaseApp](https://gitlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/sfb1280/databaseapp) is a additional developed Java application that makes the thus created metadata searable and search results esily retrievable.
