Metadata dashboard

The Metadata dashboard will display the following:

• Data Set Name - the name of the data set as displayed in DARS online
• Field Name <display name> – name of the field as displayed in DARS online
• Database Field name – name of the field as output to the customer
• Description – description of the data the field contains
• Field Type – data type of the specific field can contain: date, string, integer (whole number) & number (decimal number)
• Identifiable field – the field contains identifiable data
• Field Start Date – the date of the earliest record available in the specific field
• Field End Date - the date of the final record in a specific field, if a field has stopped flowing

The following data sets do not contain metadata at the field level and have been excluded from the BETA version of the dashboard:

• Mental Health of Children and Young People (MHCYP) survey
• Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey (APMS)

The following datasets have been structured into pre-built packages therefore field selection will not be available to customers and as such will not display in this BETA version of the dashboard. Please contact data applications team ([email protected]) for an updated list of available fields per package:

• Community Services Data Set (CSDS)
• COVID-19 Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (ePMA) in Secondary Care
• Mental Health Services Data Set (MHSDS)
• Maternity Services Data Set (MSDS)
• Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT)
• Un-curated Low Latency Hospital Data Sets