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?
🚀 Quick start guide
Jump straight into managing datasets—from creation to publication—based on your role
💡 Learn key concepts
Understand datasets, how to work with them, and the fundamentals of dataset management
⚡ Enhance your datasets
Add more context to existing datasets with data dictionaries, relations, and attributions
🏷️ Manage vocabularies
Improve dataset discoverability with keywords and legislation references
📤 Publish datasets
Allow users within or outside your organisation to discover your datasets
🔄 Revert datasets
Explore dataset rollback options—revert to draft, deprecate, and unpublish
Technical user guides
🖥️ 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.