An overview of guidance for publishers on how to generate high-quality metadata for content.

This page provides guidance to data publishers on how to assign permissions for user accounts.

This page provides status reports about additions or changes to the data.wa.gov open government data portal.

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Publishing, consultation and support resources for data publishers on data.wa.gov

This table provides definitions and guidance for general (non-column) metadata fields on data.wa.gov. Nine metadata fields, including column descriptions, are required to be completed on data.wa.gov.

This dataset can be exported and used as a worksheet for publishers.

Guidance for generating good column descriptions is provided separately at https://data.wa.gov/dataset/Column-Description-Guidance-for-Data-wa-gov-Publis/u3e5-g5ig

The platform's procedures for removing public assets.

This table provides guidance on key elements of good column descriptions, which are required metadata on data.wa.gov.

You can download a Column Description Worksheet (which includes this guidance) from this dataset’s Attachments.

Guidance for generating other metadata (e.g., Title, Brief Description, Tags) can be found at https://data.wa.gov/Open-Data-Program-Documentation/General-Metadata-Guidance-for-Data-wa-gov-Publishe/5qzb-d5hq