1. METADATA SERVICES’ NEW CAPACITIES
Holly Tomren
Manager, Metadata Services, Drexel University Libraries
Metadata Mixer
May 10, 2017

2. Metadata Services - What comes to mind?
cc-by-nc Benjamin Reay, Big question mark

3. Not this anymore…
Technical Services 8 by San Jose Library cc-by-sa

4. Metadata Services
Managing the libraries’ metadata, wherever it is…
Providing metadata expertise beyond the libraries…

5. Licensed online resources
95% of expenditures for new resources
>50% of total collection
Batch processing
Automated tasks – scripting, etc.
Knowledgebases, KBART

7. Shift in metadata role & priorities Configuration of discovery layers
Mapping
Facets
Normalization

10. Digital collections & repositories
More metadata schema to manage
MODS, Dublin Core, etc.
Data dictionary – local decisions about which fields to use & how to display, index
Optimize for sharing
Mappings for incoming collections
Transforms/crosswalks for outgoing harvests

12. Metadata consultation
Collections outside the Libraries: digital collections, research data, etc.
Coach domain specialists in metadata creation: best practices, consistency, etc.

14. DataCite schema incorporated into our iDEA data dictionary
Research Data
Use cases for iDEA
4 Drexel research studies with data sets
DataCite schema incorporated into our iDEA data dictionary
New partnership with SHARE to improve metadata for Drexel research data

16. Entity Management
Beyond authority control
Beyond the catalog
Persons & organizations as objects
Identifiers: ORCID, etc.
NACO membership

18. Linked data
Get URIs into our metadata
Data modeling
Local vocabularies as use cases for ontology design

19. Metadata quality management
Analysis & forensics
Metadata manipulation
batch and automated
Beyond local databases
The Nest by Michael Sauers cc-by-nc-sa
The Nest by Michael Sauers

20. Changes in the role of library metadata
From local to Global
Participate in cooperative databases
Share digital collection metadata with aggregators
Outside-in to inside-out
But prioritize unique > commonly held
Earth by Irish Typebad cc-by-nc-nd
Earth by Irish Typebad

21. Fewer constraints on metadata creation
Space
Poorly designed/configured online catalogs
Limitations of MARC
cc-by Author card by David Fulmer
Author card by David Fulmer

22. New opportunities
Discovery layer facets use metadata elements that were previously hidden
From documents to data
Greater flexibility to mix & match schema
Things, not strings
Cc-by-sa relationships are complicated by hojusaram
relationships are complicated by hojusaram

23. Efficient workflows
Managing resources (staff time) – unlimited possibilities, limited staff time & priorities
Batch processing for tangible as well as electronic
…Time… by Darren Tunnicluff cc-by-nc-nd
…Time… by Darren Tunnicluff

24. Description as perpetual beta?
Iterative improvement and enrichment
Lifecycle beyond libraries
Relax by Martha Soukup cc-by
Relax by Martha Soukup