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Add custom sections (MDP)

Why would I do this?

To highlight important information about the following resources on the main page for the resources.

  • Business terms

  • Analysis

  • Collections

  • Tables

  • Database columns

  • Custom resources

STEP 1: Plan your sections

Know the default metadata sections

There are three metadata sections that come with data.world by default.

Table 1.

Section

Description

Informational Metadata Section

Informational metadata should be relevant to the greatest number of users. It generally includes metadata such as the description of the resource.

Technical Metadata Section

Technical metadata is intended to convey technical information such as formulas, servers, and so on.

People Metadata Section

People metadata is often used to indicate stakeholders in a particular resource such as the data steward or data analyst that maintains a data resource.



Note

With the Navigation changes introduced on April 18, 2023, the Sidebar metadata section is deprecated. If you had added custom fields to the deprecated Sidebar metadata section, the fields from that section are automatically displayed in the People Metadata section.New navigation for collections, glossary, and resources pages

These sections display in the following locations of the UI for each resource.

metadataSections.png

Representation in turtle file

These sections are defined in the metadata profile with the following Turtle specifications:

:MetadataSectionInformational
  rdf:type dwec:MetadataSection ;
  rdfs:label "Informational Metadata" ;
  dwec:inMetadataProfile :MetadataProfileDefault ;
.

:MetadataSectionTechnical
  rdf:type dwec:MetadataSection ;
  rdfs:label "Technical Metadata" ;
  dwec:inMetadataProfile :MetadataProfileDefault ;
.

:MetadataSectionPeople
  rdf:type dwec:MetadataSection ;
  rdfs:label "People Metadata" ;
  dwec:inMetadataProfile :MetadataProfileDefault ;
.
## :MetadataSectionSidebar ##deprecated on 18 April, 2023
##  rdf:type dwec:MetadataSection ; ##deprecated on 18 April, 2023
##  rdfs:label "Sidebar Metadata" ; ##deprecated on 18 April, 2023
##  dwec:inMetadataProfile :MetadataProfileDefault ; ##deprecated on 18 April, 2023
##.

These metadata sections will be included with every organization in data.world. If you would like to add a custom metadata section to your org, then you can define custom metadata sections in a very similar manner as the default metadata sections.

Note

These are system provided sections and should not be edited or removed.

Custom metadata sections

Any custom sections you add appear under the informational metadata section of a resource's page (the "Overview"), like the Location or Calculations sections below:

custom_sections.png

STEP 2: Add the custom section to the file

Note

For steps of updating the Metadata profile file, see Updating the metadata profile.

  • Add the custom section using the following syntax.

    :MetadataSectionCustom
  rdf:type dwec:MetadataSection ;
  rdfs:label "Custom" ;
  dwec:sectionSortOrder 1 ;
  dwec:inMetadataProfile :MetadataProfileDefault ;
.

Edit the following properties:

Caution

Do not edit anything else! Only edit the contents that are mentioned here. Rest of the properties are system defined and should not be changed.

Table 2.

Property

Description

example

MetadataSectionCustom

This is the unique identifier for the section. Replace custom with the name of your custom section.

MetadataSectionLocation

rdfs:label "Custom";

Replace Custom with the label you want to display on the UI.

rdfs:label "Location";

dwec:sectionSortOrder 1 ;

Define the order of the custom sections. You need to define this only if you are adding multiple sections. If no order is specified, sections are displayed in alphabetical order.

dwec:sectionSortOrder 1 ;



Sample code

:MetadataSectionLocation
  rdf:type dwec:MetadataSection ;
  rdfs:label "Location" ;
  dwec:sectionSortOrder 1 ;
  dwec:inMetadataProfile :MetadataProfileDefault ;
.

Sample code with two sections

:MetadataSectionLocation
  rdf:type dwec:MetadataSection ;
  rdfs:label "Location" ;
  dwec:sectionSortOrder 1 ;
  dwec:inMetadataProfile :MetadataProfileDefault ;
.
:MetadataSectionUsage
  rdf:type dwec:MetadataSection ;
  rdfs:label "Calculations" ;
  dwec:sectionSortOrder 2 ;
  dwec:inMetadataProfile :MetadataProfileDefault ;
.

STEP 3: Add custom fields that will show in these sections

Note

We are not done yet!

Along with the custom section, we need to define the custom fields that will show in these sections.

Now that you have added the custom sections, it is time to add some data to show up here. Follow the process described in Add custom fields to do this task!

Note

Custom metadata sections will display when there are metadata fields within the section that have values or are marked dwec:Mandatory, otherwise they will be hidden.

View The Results

  • Go to the resource details page and see the custom sections available there.

    Custom metadata sections are displayed if either of the following conditions are met:

    • A metadata field in the custom metadata section is dwec:Mandatory.

    • A metadata field in the custom metadata section has a value.

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