Browsing by Subject "metadata"

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Best Practices for Queer Metadata
(OpenAIRE, 2024-06-29) The Queer Metadata Collective; Adolpho, Keani; Bailund, Allison; Beck, Emma; Bradshaw, Jennifer; Butler, Ellis; Bárcenas, Bianca; Caelin, Mara; Carpenter, Ruth; Day, Alison; Day, Tiffany; Dixon, Dominique; Dover, Abby; Frizzell, Sasha; Goodrich, Gideon; Hendrickson, B. L.; Keller, Tim; Misorski, Chloe; Murphy, Devon; Newlin, Rachel; Rawdon, Katy; Riccardi, Em; Rodriguez, Arielle; Springman, Abby; Tardy, Garth; Tarnawsky, Andrea; Thompson, Abbey; Uchimura, Elizabeth; Watson, B. M.; Williams, Adrian; Yragui, Crystal
This document is the result of two years of work by a group of nearly one hundred knowledge organisers, cataloguers, librarians, archivists, scholars, and information professionals with a concerted interest in improving the metadata treatment of queer people, communities, and items in GLAMS (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Special Collections) and other informational institutions. Their work has been supported by over 800 peer reviewers; combined, these groups make up the Queer Metadata Collective (QMDC). The QMDC builds upon earlier work done by the Trans Metadata Collective (TMDC), a similarly-organised group of metadata workers and information professionals with a concerted interest in improving the metadata representation of trans and gender-diverse people. The work of the TMDC culminated in Metadata Best Practices for Trans and Gender Diverse Resources, focusing on the description, cataloguing, and classification of information resources as well as the creation of metadata about trans and gender-diverse people, including authors, communities, and other creators. Following the publication of the Best Practices, several TMDC members founded and developed the QMDC over the summer of 2022. This document focuses on metadata by and about queer people, communities, and resources. While there is significant overlap between queer metadata and trans and gender diverse metadata, QMDC’s recommendations should not be seen as excluding or superseding TMDC’s, as trans and gender diverse people, communities, and resources have specific needs. For best practices and recommendations about trans and gender-diverse resources, please consult the TMDC document. If the TMDC and QMDC recommendations conflict (we are not aware of any instances in which they do), prefer the TMDC document for trans and gender diverse resources and the QMDC for other types of queer resources.
Building an Education Infrastructure for Allied Health
(2003) Lankes, R. David; Bonner, Hugh
This article discusses the emerging Education Information Infrastructure. It uses a five part framework (aggregating, organizing, using, tool building, and policy making) to describe this infrastructure and then uses the same framework to argue for a tightly coupled education information infrastructure specifically for allied health. This tightly coupled education resource would allow educators, allied health professionals and the general public to gain improved access to education resources on the Internet through metadata and digital reference services. Specific benefits of the building effort are discussed.
Developing a Mission for the National Education Network: The Challenge of Seamless Access
(1999) Lankes, R. David; Sutton, Stuart
The National Library of Education (NLE) recently created the National Education Network (NEN). This article explores the potential mission of the NEN in light of the emerging global learning infrastructure made possible by the Internet. Given the NEN membership of Internet-based collection holders of educational resources, the article develops a five-part framework for exploring the nature of education information provision in a networked digital environment. It examines a number of government sponsored and private sector initiatives that stand as exemplars of the elements of the framework. Once defined, the framework provides the mechanism for framing a policybased mission for the NEN in which it advocates for education information collections, educates its constituents in terms of the emerging education object economy, and promotes collective dissemination of information regarding the digital learning infrastructure.
Do more with less: Potential automated ETD cataloging with batch processing
(2017-05-24) Garrett, Kelly
At UT Libraries, current metadata workflows for electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) require catalogers to create records in separate systems concurrently: (1) Dublin Core for the DSpace institutional repository via ETD management software Vireo and (2) MARC in OCLC Connexion for the library catalog. In the spring of 2016, UT Libraries’ Cataloging & Metadata Services began exploring the capabilities of Vireo’s batch export feature as a means to streamline the work. This 24x7 presentation will focus on UT Libraries’ envisioned ETD batch editing workflow using the Vireo 3 MARC export feature, MarcEdit Tools, and Regular Expressions. Lingering issues and recommendations for Vireo 4 export features will also be covered.
Metadata Best Practices for Trans and Gender Diverse Resources
(OpenAIRE, 2022-06-22) Burns, Jasmine; Cronquist, Michelle; Huang, Jackson; Murphy, Devon; Rawson, K.J.; Schaefer, Beck; Simons, Jamie; Watson, Brian M.; Williams, Adrian
Metadata for Data Rescue and Data at Risk
(2011-09-22) Anderson, William L.; Faundeen, John L.; Greenberg, Jane; Taylor, Fraser
Scientific data age, become stale, fall into disuse and run tremendous risks of being forgotten and lost. These problems can be addressed by archiving and managing scientific data over time, and establishing practices that facilitate data discovery and reuse. Metadata documentation is integral to this work and essential for measuring and assessing high priority data preservation cases. The International Council for Science: Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) has a newly appointed Data-at-Risk Task Group (DARTG), participating in the general arena of rescuing data. The DARTG primary objective is building an inventory of scientific data that are at risk of being lost forever. As part of this effort, the DARTG is testing an approach for documenting endangered datasets. The DARTG is developing a minimal and easy to use set of metadata properties for sufficiently describing endangered data, which will aid global data rescue missions. The DARTG metadata framework supports rapid capture, and easy documentation, across an array of scientific domains. This paper reports on the goals and principles supporting the DARTG metadata schema, and provides a description of the preliminary implementation.
Metadata training in New Mexico: A case study
(2011 Transborder Library Forum/Foro Transfronterizo de Bibliotecas, 2011-07) Lubas, Rebecca; Schneider, Ingrid; Jackson, Amy S.
No More Silence in the Library: Documenting Fandom and Fan Culture in Archives and Special Collections - Jennifer Hecker on Metadata, Crowd-sourcing, and Games!
(2015-08) Hecker, Jennifer
This talk concerns a UT Libraries project to retool a gamified zine cataloging interface developed by the Independent Publication Research Center for use at an event promoting the Fine Arts Library's zine collection. Slides from talk as part of No More Silence in the Library: Documenting Fandom and Fan Culture in Archives and Special Collections panel presented at the Society of American Archivists annual meeting in Cleveland in August 2015.
Reducing Metadata Errors in an IR with Distributed Submission Privileges
(2015-06) Lyon, Colleen; Cofield, Melanie C.; Borrego, Gilbert
The distributed nature of many repositories means that standardizing metadata input is very difficult. At the University of Texas at Austin, there are over 50 people who have permission to upload content to the UT Digital Repository (UTDR). Out of that 50, there are two full-time staff members who have management responsibilities for the repository. The limited number of staff responsible for managing UTDR means that frequent metadata clean-up isn’t possible. We’ve instituted an approach that combines limited data clean-up with a transformed training process. Training focuses on clearly communicating overall metadata standards, the creation of metadata guidelines to be used as necessary for individual collections, and a focus on better defining the input guidelines for each Dublin Core (DC) metadata field. We are working one-on-one with student workers to familiarize them with the new guidelines and are communicating with repository submitters via listservs and in-person meetings. The new guidelines were rolled out recently, and we expect to see a decrease in the number of records requiring editing. We will present examples from our new guidelines, suggestions for successful communication methods with stakeholders, and provide information regarding the incidence of errors since implementing the new training.