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Principles for Building Good Digital Collections

Spotlight: Metadata. Principles for Building Good Digital Collections. Allison Schein LIS 882/Spring 2012 Metadata for Internet Resources. Before we begin…. Keep in mind that there are no hard and fast rules to create a good digital collection.

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Principles for Building Good Digital Collections

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  1. Spotlight: Metadata Principles for Building Good Digital Collections Allison Schein LIS 882/Spring 2012 Metadata for Internet Resources

  2. Before we begin… Keep in mind that there are no hard and fast rules to create a good digital collection. A successful project does not travel one set path, plan strategically, while making appropriate choices to support your unique collection A good object has associated metadata

  3. Some questions to consider Purpose/objective? Goal? Users? Collection, individual level? Both? Which standards to apply?

  4. Six Principles of Metadata for Good Digital Collection Metadata Principle 1: Good metadata conforms to community standards in a way that is appropriate to the materials in the collection, users of the collection, and current and potential future uses of the collection. Metadata Principle 2:     Good metadata supports interoperability. Metadata Principle 3:     Good metadata uses authority control and content standards to describe objects and collocate related objects.

  5. Six Principles of Metadata for Good Digital Collection cont'd Metadata Principle 4: Good metadata includes a clear statement of the conditions and terms of use for the digital object. Metadata Principle 5: Good metadata supports the long-term curation and preservation of objects in collections. Metadata Principle 6: Good metadata records are objects themselves and therefore should have the qualities of good objects, including authority, authenticity, archivability, persistence, and unique identification.

  6. Principle 1 Points of Interest • Consider at what level the collection will be described, then create an application profile that shows scheme implementation.

  7. Photo courtesy of http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/michael/michael-eu/dcap/figure2.png

  8. Principle 2 Points of Interest • Good metadata should be mindful of global contexts as well. Do not assume that your users know the main content of your collection. • 3 tools that assist metadata interoperability : • Crosswalks (maps out between the schemas) • Harvesting metadata through OAI-PMH • Cross systems searching/Metasearch

  9. Principle 3 Point of Interests • Whenever possible use standard, controlled terms. • Consider the following when selecting: • Future needs of the users • Available tools to support vocabulary • Maintaining vocabulary

  10. Principle 4 Points of Interest • Rights metadata • Rights description • Rights licensing • Rights workflow

  11. Principle 5 Points of Interest • Administrative • Technical metadata • Preservation metadata • Recordkeeping metadata • Structural metadata

  12. Principle 6 Point of Interest • Make sure that you supply institutional information and include schema documentation.

  13. Bibliography • Library of Congress "Metadata for Digital Content" group. Access Through Metadata: Library Group Tackels the Challenge - Digital Preservation. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/series/challenge/metadata_digital_content_challenge.html (accessed 01 16, 2012). • Morgan, Eric Lease, et al. "Index of /mylibrary." Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining Digital Library Services and Collections with MyLibrary. 01 28, 2010. http://dewey.library.nd.edu/mylibrary/ (accessed 01 17, 2012). • National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Framework Working Group. A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections. White paper, Baltimore: National Information Standards Organization (NISO), 2007.

  14. Recommended Readings • Morgan, Eric Lease, et al. Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining Digital Library Services and Collections with MyLibrary. 01 28, 2010. http://dewey.library.nd.edu/mylibrary/ • Library of Congress Meeting the Challenge: The Library of Congress: Meeting the Challenge of Digital Preservation • http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/series/challenge/index.html • Institute of Museum and Library Services Digital Collections and Content Metadata Resources and Documentation http://imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu/resources.asp • National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Framework Working Group. A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections. White paper, Baltimore: National Information Standards Organization (NISO), 2007. www.niso.org/publications/rp/framework3.pdf

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