CONTENTdm Users Meeting: Metadata Working Group Summary

1. CONTENTdm Users Meeting: Metadata Working Group Summary ALA Midwinter Boston Jan 18 2010 Geri Ingram OCLC Digital Collection Services User Services Manager

2. CONTENTdm Metadata Working Group • Background • Best Practices for Sharing CONTENTdm Metadata— (rev 1.7 is on the wiki, and here) • Furthering the work of the CONTENTdm Metadata Working Group

3. Background: the genesis and milestones • March 2009, Midwest CONTENTdm Users Group • August 2009, MWG wiki and bimonthly web meetings • WorldCat Sync—function of CONTENTdm 5.1+ • Hosting Services server testbed—sample schemas • Test driving through the Digital Collection Gateway • January 2010: • Best Practices guide

4. Best Practices Guide—a work in progress • ‘Best Practices’ for CONTENTdm users creating shareable metadata, v. 1.7 • Created by contributions from the MWG, facilitated by OCLC DCS: Geri Ingram and Jason Lee • Living on, and available for download at: • Also available on the CONTENTdm User Support Center • http://contentdmmwg.wikispaces.com/ • http://contentdmmwg.wikispaces.com/Best+Practices

5. ‘Best Practices’ for CONTENTdm users creating shareable metadata • [Draft 1.7] • Introduction: • In many venues, including the CONTENTdm-L, regional and national CONTENTdm Users Group conferences, there has been growing discussion surrounding the need to provide metadata both useful to the local community and suitable for harvesting externally. The challenge, as with all environments, is to sustain useful local information while providing context and perspective to both the local and the remote user base. Because each metadata standard and each collection management toolset may indicate its own 'best practice’ it is incumbent upon each community of practice to provide leadership from its constituents' particular point of view. ..

6. CONTENTdm Metadata Working Group BPG Contributors Sheila Bair Western Michigan University bair@wmich.edu Dachun Bao National Defense University baod@ndu.edu Amalia (Molly) Beisler University of Nevada Reno abeisler@unr.edu Megan Bernal Depaul University MBERNAL2@depaul.edu Laura Capell University of Southern Mississippi laura.capell@usm.edu Dana Caudle Auburn University caudlda@auburn.edu MingYu Chen University of Houston mchen15@uh.edu Mei Ling Chow Montclair University chowm@mail.montclair.edu Kevin Clair Penn State University kmc35@psulias.psu.edu Lee Dotson University of Central Florida ddotson@mail.ucf.edu Mario Einaudi Huntington Library meinaudi@huntington.org Allegra Gonzalez Claremont Colleges Digital Library Allegra.Gonzalez@libraries.claremont.edu Deborah Green University of Idaho dgreen@uidaho.edu Myung-Ja (MJ) Han University of Illinois U-C mhan3@illinois.edu Rachel Howard University of Louisville rachel.howard@louisville.edu Amanda A Hurford Ball State University aahurford@bsu.edu Andrea Kappler Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library andreak@evpl.org Deborah Keller US Army deborah.eb.keller@us.army.mil Kate Kluttz North Carolina State Library kate.kluttz@ncdcr.gov Lyn MacCorkle University of Miami LMaccork@miami.edu Sandra McIntyre Mountain West Digital Library sandra.mcintyre@UTAH.EDU Gail McMillan Virginia Tech gailmac@vt.edu Ann Olszewski Cleveland Public Library ann.olszewski@cpl.org Jennifer Palmentiero SE NY Library Resources Council jennifer@senylrc.org Kitty Pittman Oklahoma State Library kpittman@oltn.odl.state.ok.us Gayle Porter Chicago State University gporter@csu.edu Gayle Spears Atlanta University Center gspears@auctr.edu Jill Strass St. Olaf University strass@stolaf.edu Glee M Willis University of Nevada Reno willis@unr.edu Ling Wang University of Illinois Chicago lwang@uic.edu Noelia Ramos Map Library of Catalonia noelia.ramos@icc.cat Shilpa Rele University of Miami s.rele@miami.edu Cheryl Walters Utah State University cheryl.walters@usu.edu Trashinda Wright Atlanta University Center twright@auctr.edu ZeeZee Zamin Louisiana State University/LOUIS zehra@lsu.edu

7. Going forward: an evolving group • Communication and community • Wiki, User Support Center, blog/forum coming… • Volunteer leadership for work projects • Metadata Working Group will move forward • Improve the Best Practice Guide (April 1 version 2?) • Add appendix on compound objects (Geri Ingram) • Add Consortial concerns (Volunteer?) • Develop material-type based templates (Volunteer?) • Test schemas against other harvesters • Mountain West Digital Library (Sandra McIntyre)

8. Deepening the work of the MWG • Joint Papers describing work with MWG • Grants from OCLC for MWG member travel to present peer reviewed proposals • Soliciting now: • DCMI October, 2010, Pittsburgh, PA • due to the DCMI by Apr 2 (See Posted Call for Proposals) CONTACT ingramg@oclc.org

9. …And, broadening the work of the Metadata Working Group •  Digital Commons: Building digital communities using digital collections • Call to action! • WC Metadata Working Group • Explore the connection between digital content syndication and • metadata crosswalks • controlled vocabularies • social metadata • born digital vs. digitized materials • Subgroups will determine work products (Ex: Topical resource guides for WorldCat; Materials-based metadata templates) • Topical Subgroups [Ex: Decorative book binding; Civil War; oral histories] • Materials-based Subgroups[Ex: Maps; yearbooks; postcards]

10. Digital Collection Gateway to WorldCat Registry • Recapping: WHY work together? • Community Leadership and Collaboration = better service to our shared user constituencies • Repurpose your metadata—make it work harder! • Qualified DC -> MARC -> WorldCat.org • Global exposure for your unique treasures • Gold Record campaign • Akin to traditional recognition of WorldCat milestones • Contact : leeja@oclc.org