Metadata Quality

A pandemic and migration later, I'm back thinking about metadata quality. What does it mean to have quality metadata? Is it consistency? Is it accuracy? What about consistency? If the data are consistently entered into a form, does that assure quality? For years, physical resources cataloged separately at my library were cataloged separately and a …

Information Quality & Data Sampling

One of the many things that I enjoy about this blog is that I get to work through issues that I encounter at work. This blog began when the library where I was working became a RDA test partner. Over the years, this blog has given me an outlet to explore possibilities and share that. …

Sampling Data

I was thinking of the various technologies at our finger tips to manipulate and understand data. Immediately I thought of Open Refine. At the same time I also thought of the times Open Refine was difficult to use such as an xml file with repeatable tags. From this, I began to question the pros and …

The SMART Concert

Interesting enough I had continued conversations about titles and the relationship between metadata and technology. I don't want to dwell on the first except to say that it is important to illustrate how our jobs are changing and what that means for libraries and librarianship. In fact, many jobs in libraries are changing at a …

What’s With A Title Anyway?

The tension of who, when, and why the title of cataloger and metadata librarian are used has been around for some time. I remember when I was still in my library program and saw that the title metadata librarian was key to how much in the cataloging profession was changing. Over the years, I've seen …

How to develop a smart concert between content and metadata

Since my last past, I've been thinking more about the relationship between metadata and content and digital content in particular. In the last post, I referred to the data architecture model developed by G. Colati and P. L. Carr. Their focus was on digital content acquired by the library that need to be thought of …

Smart means being aware of technology

Recently I attended the Boston Library Consortium Networking event. This is a one day event which brings together members of the BLC. It's a fun day to see colleagues, network, and participate in the number of working groups or interest communities of the BLC. As part of the event, there are the lighting talks which …

SMART: Start Playing Instead of Failing

I wanted to go back to my last post on SMART or scoping metadata to be adaptive and reactive to technology. There are multiple ways to do this. For this post, I wanted to highlight the adaptive and reactive adjectives and explore their context here for SMART. The phrase "Fail fast, fail often" is not …

SMART

I recently attended ELUNA or the Ex Libris Users of North America conference. It was fantastic. I met so many great people and come back with many awesome ideas. One of those ideas concerns metadata. In one of the plenary sessions, there was a discussion on how to leverage data for better collection development and …

Librarianship is a public service

Last weekend, I checked out the documentary film Ex Libris: The New York Public Library. It's a documentary by Frederick Wiseman that is close to 3 1/2 hours in length. It follows the work of many librarians at several branches of the New York Public Library. I have to say that one of my favorite …