guest lecture: exchange and qa for metadata at wsu
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Exchange & Quality Control for Wayne State Metadata
Meghan FinchMetadata Librarian
Wayne State University
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Meghan Finch• Metadata and Digital Media Librarian• Started in March 2011 (8 months into the job)• Job description:
– Managing and contributing cataloging and metadata for archival and digital projects
– Creating Encoded Archival Description (EAD) finding aids and associated style sheets for archival collections.
– Working collaboratively with the Digital Library Initiative Team to describe digital objects and create metadata formats appropriate to various delivery platforms
– Participating in library teams and special projects related to cataloging, digital projects, and bibliographic control
– Converting and preparing metadata for Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) for import to the digital repository
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Projects I’ve worked on, Tools I useElectronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
altered existing XSLT to transform data from Proquest to bepress for ingestion in
contributed to shell script to automate production of bepress xml and MARC records
working on new XSLT to convert existing MARC records to bepress
Digital Collections migrationassessed existing metadata for ~12
collectionsselected metadata scheme(s) for use
in new platformadding descriptive metadata to
improve collectionsOral histories
MARC recordsConverting files for use online
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IR vs. Digital Collections
Digital Commons• Search Engine Optimization
managed by Bepress remotely
• Flexible metadata schema (Bepress created and managed)
• OAI repository
DLXS• Is NOT crawled by search
engine• Flexible metadata schema,
ugly and cruel load tables• OAI repository
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Standards and Guides I turned to• CDPDCMBP (the most incomprehensible of all
acronyms!)• The sources of the schemas: Dublin Core, VRA
Core, METS, etc.• NISO• Controlled vocabularies: LCSH, AAT, DCMITYPE• Digital initiative wikis: Ball State
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Process of Evaluation
• Determine standards that work for users AND work for the collections
• Take a sample of existing metadata and test out standards
• Find ways to make changes in batches, not individual records. Changes through data manipulation, not data entry.
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WSULS Field Description CFAI Field Notes AFT Field NotesDetroit Historical Costume Field Notes
Dorthea June Grossbart Field
dc.contributor
Use for general people, corporations, organizations that were involved in the creation/developement of the item
CONTRIBUTORCONTRIBUTOR2CONTRIBUTOR3
dc.coverage
Use for general, non-specific locations, dates and times related to the resource. See dc.date, dcterms.spatial, dcterms.temporal and the VRA location elements for more specific dates and locations coverage
dc.creator
Use for the creator(s) of the item. Agents not considered responsible for the creation of the item can be described by the dc.contributor or the more specific marc relator codes
CREATORCREATOR2CREATOR3 dc: creator
dc.dateUse for date of creation. Can be specific, range, bulk
ORGDATEorgdate2 dc:date
EARLYDATELATEDATE DJG_do
dc.description
Use for general descriptions of the item; an account of the content of the resource DESCRIPTION dc: description DESCRIP
DJG_clDJG_coDJG_dlDJG_ds
dc.identifier
Use for any alpha-numeric identifier used with a physical object. Do not use with identifiers specific to the digital object. identifier dc: identifier OBJECTID DJG_fn
dc.language
Use to indicate the language(s) of the resource. Not to indicate the language of the descriptive metadata
languagelanguage2
dc.publisher Use for the identified publisherPUBLISHERPUBLISHER2 dc: publisher
dc.relation
Use to describe general relations. See DCTERMS relations for more specific relations
relationrelation2
dc.rights
Use to indicate rights. Can include name of rightsholder, contact information rights dc: rights
dc.source
Use to describe another resource from which the source is derived (i.e. the title of the journal where the article appears, the title of a book from which the image was scanned) source dc: source
dc.subject
Use for subject terms. Keywords or controlled vocabularies. Recommended LCSH, AAT, MESH
SUBJECT1SUBJECT2SUBJECT3
dc: subjectdc: relation
not sure if dc: relation is really a relation
COLLECTIONGPARENTPARENTSUBJECTS
dc.title Use for the primary title of the item. TITLE dc: title
dc.type
Use to describe the nature or genre of the resource (i.e. photograph). Do not use for file type
typetype2 dc: Item_Type
dcterms.alternative Use for alternative titles OBJNAME
dcterms.extent
Use to provide physical description. Can include measurement, dimensions, page numbers, number of pieces DIMNOTES
Only one example to base on. Could be a dc.description if all occurences of element are not heel measurements
dcterms.isformatof
dcterms.ispartofdcterms.isreferencedbydcterms.isreplacedbydcterms.isrequiredbydcterms.isversionof
dcterms.mediumUse to describe the material or physical carrier of the resource
DJG_fcDJG_fi
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The Current, the Future
• Controlling the vocabs with:– Google Refine– Excel– MARCEdit– Linked data authorities
• Admin & preservation data• FAST subject headings
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References
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L9w-nIS4TlRWx9A3N9xpvD2dr0MSSlYLbwrnqcv8Ff0/edit