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Learn practical and theoretical lessons on collaboration from a data provider's perspective. Explore software selection, metadata view creation, and iterative improvements for quality results. Discover how collaboration promotes innovation, sets priorities, and poses challenges in the shared environment, emphasizing the need for community-based standards. Dive into the potential and incentives collaboration offers data providers for robustness and innovation.
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Collaboration from a data provider’s perspective Jenn Riley Metadata Librarian Indiana University
Collaboration provides education • Learn from both service providers and other data providers • Practical and theoretical lessons • Selection of software • Need to create “view” of metadata for shared environment • Improvements can be iterative • Community as resource
Collaboration promotes quality • Demonstrates potential of how metadata can be used in a shared environment • Allows data providers to see the results of their efforts • Incentive for data provider to provide additional robustness
Collaboration encourages innovation • “Two heads are better than one” • Innovations from each side can move to the other • Can negate the “chicken and egg” problem • Shared metadata can serve as a testbed for local improvements
Collaboration sets priorities • Optional parts of the OAI protocol to implement • Adoption of new metadata formats • Exposure of new materials • Can de-prioritize things service providers normalize for their own purposess
Collaboration poses challenges • Data providers must collaborate with multiple service providers • We can’t customize metadata for each and every service provider • Loss of control is scary • Project-specific guidelines not enough • Community-based standards and best practices needed • No hacks!
The bottom line Collaboration benefits everyone.