1. Metadata in the Marriott Library
Three Cool Things

2. Western Name Authority Project
Linked data controlled vocabulary of personal/corporate body names drawn from digital collections in the Mountain West
Partners:
Utah State University
Brigham Young University
University of Nevada, Reno
Utah State Archives
Utah State Library
University of Oregon
Boise State University
More info at

3. Keeping It Simple, Sweetie
FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) Headings
Breaks up long LCSH subheadings into easier-to-understand pieces
You shouldn’t have to be trained in order to use subject metadata
Consolidating metadata fields for digital collections
From 730 unique fields to 450
Part of our migration from CONTENTdm to Solphal (homegrown system built on open-source tools)

4. Utah Digital Newspapers Developments
IMLS-funded project to create software for managing historical newspaper content
Helps prepare content and ingest it
Allows user to interact with content (annotation, click-through, etc.)
University-funded (Office of the VP for Research) project to create an API that exposes UDN metadata for reuse and the creation of new UDN interfaces and integrate its content