1. Metadata Round-up The rough and tumble world of metadata librarianship Liz Muller, Glen Wiley, and Dianne Dietrich Metadata Working Group Forum/ Career Development Week Cornell University Library 21 May 2010

2. What does a Metadata Librarian do? Project-based work Usually non-MARC based Typically programmatic or automated solutions Provides services Development of metadata & schemas Design of data model and access Consulting on metadata Production of metadata

3. Who do we work with? Faculty Library Staff Curators (internal/external) Publishers/Vendors

4. When does the work come? Unpredictable Domino effect

5. Where does the work come from? Word of Mouth Proactive Scanning DCAPS / DLIT RMC / Archives Arts & Sciences grants Misc

6. What do we work with? Multimedia Image collections Research data Bibliographic metadata Anything…

7. Why? Mediate information decisions and software needs Work with anything Does not need to be well structured The go-betweens with programmers, catalogers, curators, researchers… Deal with longevity, migration, re-use, big picture issues Extent resources and metadata beyond its original intent Project management issues like budget, workflows, etc.

8. Image Metadata Projects ConsultingDesignMappingProductionAccess Advise on metadata schema, vocabularies, and content standards for use in digital projects Determine which metadata fields to use, display, and index in building a digital collection Determine how existing metadata should be presented for use in another context Create item- level metadata Create collection-level metadata to provide access to digital collections

9. Consulting Advise on metadata schema, vocabularies, and content standards for use in digital projects Rare and Manuscript Collections General image collection Dante Collection Image Archive Kheel Center photographs Prof. Annetta Alexandridis (Art History) Plaster cast database Numismatics collection database Plant Pathology Herbarium fungi specimens Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics (LEPP) images ARTstor Shared Shelf development

10. Consulting: Plaster Cast Database

11. Design/Mapping Determine which metadata fields to use, display, and index in building a digital collection; Determine how existing metadata should be presented for use in another context Maps LUNA collection LUNA categories index ARTstor quarterly uploads ARTstor migration from Luna Flickr

12. Design: Maps LUNA Collection

13. Mapping: Maps LUNA Collection

14. Production Create item-level metadata Arts & Sciences image cataloging Classics project Art History and other disciplines

15. Production: A&S Image Cataloging

16. Access Create collection-level metadata to provide access to digital collections Registry of Digital Collections Catalog updates WebFeat updates

17. Access: Registry of Digital Collections

18. Research Data Projects Loons (text/audio) DataStaR National Virtual Observatory (instruction session) Research Data Support Wiki Translational Librarianship Consortium Outreach Survey of Faculty needs (in the works)

19. Loon Data

20. Metadata Creation (in Morpho)

22. DataStaR

24. Discoverability

25. Completed Record Online (KNB)

26. Completed Record Online (eCommons)

27. Audio Files

29. Research Data Support Wiki

30. Other Projects Electronic Theses & Dissertations Amazon Print on Demand / ONIX format Project Euclid Law Library new books list Business Information Group wiki Cooperative Extension’s eCommons work Veterinary Senior Seminars National Archives of Canada finding aid Technical Services workflow reviews Google books User contributed Flickr metadata & statistics VIVO (ontology/taxonomy) Logs.library.cornell.edu OpenURL research DCAPS data archiving methods/standards Documentary film footage & educational videos for ThinkWorks Numerous investigations, tips, leads…