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Metadata Round-up . The rough and tumble world of metadata librarianship Liz Muller, Glen Wiley, and Dianne Dietrich. Metadata Working Group Forum/ Career Development Week Cornell University Library 21 May 2010. What does a Metadata Librarian do?. Project-based work
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Metadata Round-up The rough and tumble world of metadata librarianship Liz Muller, Glen Wiley, and Dianne Dietrich Metadata Working Group Forum/Career Development Week Cornell University Library 21 May 2010
What does a Metadata Librarian do? • Project-based work • Usually non-MARC based • Typically programmatic or automated solutions • Provides services • Development of metadata & schemas • Design of data model and access • Consulting on metadata • Production of metadata
Who do we work with? • Faculty • Library Staff • Curators (internal/external) • Publishers/Vendors
When does the work come? • Unpredictable • Domino effect
What do we work with? • Multimedia • Image collections • Research data • Bibliographic metadata • Anything…
Why? • Mediate information decisions and software needs • Work with anything • Does not need to be well structured • The go-betweens with programmers, catalogers, curators, researchers… • Deal with longevity, migration, re-use, big picture issues • Extent resources and metadata beyond its original intent • Project management issues like budget, workflows, etc.
Research Data Projects • Loons (text/audio) • DataStaR • National Virtual Observatory (instruction session) • Research Data Support Wiki • Translational Librarianship Consortium • Outreach • Survey of Faculty needs (in the works)
Other Projects • Electronic Theses & Dissertations • Amazon Print on Demand / ONIX format • Project Euclid • Law Library new books list • Business Information Group wiki • Cooperative Extension’s eCommons work • Veterinary Senior Seminars • National Archives of Canada finding aid • Technical Services workflow reviews • Google books • User contributed Flickr metadata & statistics • VIVO (ontology/taxonomy) • Logs.library.cornell.edu • OpenURL research • DCAPS data archiving methods/standards • Documentary film footage & educational videos for ThinkWorks • Numerous investigations, tips, leads…