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Creating a Metadata Unit at the MIT Libraries

Creating a Metadata Unit at the MIT Libraries. ALCTS/CCS Cataloging Norms Discussion Group January 12, 2008. An Experiment. MIT Libraries partnered with MIT’s OpenCourseWare (OCW) in 2002 The Libraries tested and designed the metadata module in OCW’s content management system

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Creating a Metadata Unit at the MIT Libraries

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  1. Creating a Metadata Unit at the MIT Libraries ALCTS/CCS Cataloging Norms Discussion Group January 12, 2008

  2. An Experiment • MIT Libraries partnered with MIT’s OpenCourseWare (OCW) in 2002 • The Libraries tested and designed the metadata module in OCW’s content management system • The Libraries created a Metadata Production Assistant position and Metadata Specialist position in 2003 for a 4 year agreement (and we’re still going!)

  3. New Challenges • Demanding deadlines • Using multiple new standards • Increasing dependence on non-librarians for bibliographic information

  4. It’s not just description… • Subjects and keywords: Classification of Instructional Programs, LCSH, uncontrolled keywords (to name a few) • Technical Metadata determined by the format of learning object • Rights Metadata, including Creative Commons licenses (“some rights reserved”)

  5. How is this metadata used? • OCW users can search courses on a particular subject, or they can look for individual “learning objects” – exams, course notes, lab experiments, etc. – to adapt for their own use • The metadata is reused when old versions of the courses are archived in DSpace

  6. New Customers • Singapore-MIT Alliance: enhancing Dublin Core Metadata in DSpace • LOLA: Learning Objects, Learning Activities • MIT’s Information Systems & Services: Best Practices for podcasting • CSAIL research project

  7. Expansion • AACR2/MARC Catalogers participated in CSAIL research project • Image metadata for MIT’s Visual Collection

  8. Future directions • More catalogers creating metadata using multiple standards • Libraries’ digital collections

  9. For More Information… • Rebecca L. Lubas rll@mit.edu • MIT Cataloging & Metadata Services http://libstaff.mit.edu/colserv/cat/monocat/cams.html • Metadata Services Unit http://libraries.mit.edu/metadata/index.html

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