The Online Metadata Editor (OME) is a Web-based tool to help document scientific data in a well-structured, popular scientific metadata format. In this paper, we will discuss the newest tool that Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has developed to generate, edit, and manage metadata and how it is helping dataintensive science centers and projects, such as the U.S. Department of Energy's Next Generation Ecosystem Experiments (NGEE) in the Arctic to prepare metadata and make their big data produce big science and lead to new discoveries.
The next-generation On-line Metadata Editor (OME) is an easy-to-use tool to help document scientific data in a well-structured popular metadata format. In this paper, we discuss the newest tool that Oak Ridge National Laboratory has developed to input, edit, and manage metadata and how it is helping data intensive science centers across many federal agencies to prepare metadata and to make their BigData discoverable.