Welcome to Metadata Capture
Welcome to the Metadata Capture User Guide!
Metadata Capture is your tool for managing your dataset catalogue while ensuring compliance with the Data Catalogue Vocabulary Application Profile - Luxembourg (DCAT-AP-LU).
As your first step towards secure and compliant data sharing, Metadata Capture enables your organisation to document the types of data you hold and make them discoverable to users within and outside your organisation.
This guide is for data professionals—data holders, catalogue managers, data stewards, and anyone responsible for cataloguing, reviewing, and sharing datasets in compliance with DCAT-AP-LU standards. Create, publish, and manage datasets throughout their lifecycle—from creation to publication and deprecation.
What would you like to do?
Follow your role-specific workflows to create, enhance, review, and publish datasets.
🚀 Quick start guide
Jump straight into managing datasets—from creation to publication—based on your role
💡 Learn key concepts
Understand the dataset lifecycle and how to manage them in Metadata Capture
➕ Create datasets
Document your organisation's data holdings by creating and cataloguing new datasets
🏷️ Enhance datasets
Provide richer context to your datasets with data dictionaries, attributions, and other metadata
🔎 Review datasets
Ensure datasets are accurate and meet publication standards before publication
📤 Publish datasets
Share datasets internally within your organisation or publish externally for broader discovery
Catalogue management
Maintain system-wide standards, vocabularies, and organisational settings.
📚 Manage vocabularies
Ensure consistent categorisation with controlled keywords and legislative references
🏢 Manage organisations
Add and maintain organisations and contacts for accurate dataset attribution
🔧 Manage published datasets
Deprecate outdated datasets or assign authentic sources to maintain data quality
Technical guides
Deploy your own instance or contribute to the platform's development.
🖥️ System Admin Guide
Deploy, configure, and maintain your own instance of the Metadata Capture application.
👨🏻💻 Developer Guide
Contribute to the development of Metadata Capture and extend its capabilities.