# Plasma-MDS, a metadata schema for plasma science with examples from plasma technology

## TL;DR

Plasma-MDS is a specialized metadata schema designed to enhance research data management and sharing in plasma science, promoting FAIR principles and facilitating data reuse in domain-specific repositories.

## Contribution

It introduces a domain-specific metadata schema for plasma science that structures data description around source, medium, target, diagnostics, and resource attributes.

## Key findings

- Applied to datasets in INPTDAT, demonstrating its practical utility.
- Supports FAIR principles in plasma research data publication.
- Enhances data discoverability and reuse in plasma science.

## Abstract

A metadata schema, named Plasma-MDS, is introduced to support research data management in plasma science. Plasma-MDS is suitable to facilitate the publication of research data following the FAIR principles in domain-specific repositories and with this the reuse of research data for data driven plasma science. In accordance with common features in plasma science and technology, the metadata schema bases on the concept to separately describe the source generating the plasma, the medium in which the plasma is operated in, the target the plasma is acting on, and the diagnostics used for investigation of the process under consideration. These four basic schema elements are supplemented by a schema element with various attributes for description of the resources, i.e. the digital data obtained by the applied diagnostic procedures. The metadata schema is first applied for the annotation of datasets published in INPTDAT -- the interdisciplinary data platform for plasma technology.