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 …
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The Elusive Metadata
I've talked about how the term "metadata" has become associated with so many jobs, tasks, or titles that I wonder if the term has lost much of its meaning to be helpful. I was reminded of my question while reading a recent thread on what to call catalogers. The term metadata came up. Another reminder …
Name Authority…What?
Today I got to do some investigating to answer the question...What do we do as an institution with disambiguating local names that go into our digital collections? If you work in digital initiatives, you must be nodding and thinking the same thing. How do you handle all of these different names that archivists, curators, work …
Metadata and Life Cycles: Migration
No life cycle is complete without investigated how to migrate your data. This includes continually appraising your metadata in addition to changing ways of implementing it. According to the DCC, migration includes the following: Dispose: Dispose of data, which has not been selected for long-term curation and preservation in accordance with documented policies, guidance or legal …
Metadata and Life Cycles: Appraise
In this post, let's take a quick look at the next DCC step, appraisal. According to the DCC: Appraise and select: Evaluate data and select for long-term curation and preservation. Adhere to documented guidance, policies or legal requirements. What is interesting is that appraisal should really take place all throughout the project and even after. As …
Metadata and Life Cycles: Access
From ingest, let me address another step on the DCC life cycle, namely that of access including issues of use, reuse, and transformation. Access, use and reuse: Ensure that data is accessible to both designated users and reusers, on a day-to-day basis. This may be in the form of publicly available published information. Robust access controls …
Metadata and Life Cycles: Create
In my last post, I looked at the first step of conceptualizing and planning the creation and storage of metadata. In this post, I want to look at the creation and reception of metadata. Create and/or receive: The DCC explains that this step involves creating data that includes administrative, descriptive, structural, preservation and technical metadata. …
Metadata and Life Cycles: Conceptualize
In my last post, I left you off with a list of the steps of a data life cycle model from DCC. In this continuing discussion, I wanted to return to the first step, conceptualize and planning, to see how it relates to metadata. In my example here and in the following related posts, metadata …
My Shiny New Metadata
I almost named my last post the "Shiny New Metadata That Could". Instead I focused on some of the highlights of the ACRL NE get together at Northeastern. But I kept thinking about the increase of the word "metadata" especially in forums outside of cataloging and metadata. These forums seem to be linked to digital …
Digital Initiatives
Recently I attended the New England Technical Services Librarians (NETSL) annual Spring Conference. There were several comments from the audience about their inability to initiate digital projects, especially projects on a large-scale. Definitely, not every institution has access to staff with the skills necessary to create a Fedora repository with all the necessary accompanying goodies …