Browsing by Subject "Metadata"

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    Assessing Metadata Quality and Terminology Coverage of a Federally Sponsored Health Data Repository
    (2016-02) Marc, David
    The Open Government Initiative began an era of information sharing by publishing data that is accessible to the public. HealthData.gov is a data portal that was developed by the U.S. Federal Government to publish metadata to disseminate information about healthcare datasets to the American people. Despite the growth in the number of datasets published, there has been limited public participation in the use of the data, which has been attributed to the currently implemented methods for data storage and retrieval. An automated assessment of the HealthData.gov metadata was conducted to assess completeness, accuracy, and consistency of metadata published from 2012 to 2014. Also, a method for indexing the datasets using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) was evaluated using a term coverage study. The results of these studies demonstrated that metadata published in earlier years were less complete, lower quality, and less consistent. Also, metadata that underwent modifications following their original creation were of higher quality. MeSH offered adequate coverage of the metadata concepts, thereby lending support for the adoption of the terminology for indexing purposes. The results suggested that greater standardization is needed when publishing metadata. This research contributed to the development of automated metrics for assessing metadata quality, design recommendations for a framework to supports high quality metadata, and recommendations for expanding MeSH to offer greater coverage of concepts from HealthData.gov.
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    Crashing the Party: Catalogers as Digital Librarians
    (Emerald, 2004) DeZelar-Tiedman, Christine
    Catalog librarians have been slow to take an active role in the development and execution of digital library projects. Catalogers have a unique combination of experience and skills that would be valuable in the digital library world. Catalogers are encouraged to take the initiative to overcome stereotypes and their own fears in order to become active partners and collaborators. Suggestions are given for initial steps to take in order to move into the digital library arena.
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    Linked Data Primer
    (Data Curation Network, 2024-10) Provo, Alexandra; Burns, Halle; Lamorte, Michele; Jiao, Chenyue
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    Think Globally, Act Locally: The Importance of Elevating Data Repository Metadata to the Global Infrastructure
    (2022) Taylor, Shawna; Wright, Sarah; Narlock, Mikala R.; Habermann, Ted
    Inconsistent and incomplete applications of metadata standards and unsatisfactory approaches to connecting repository holdings across the global research infrastructure inhibit data discovery and reusability. The Realities of Academic Data Sharing (RADS) Initiative has found that institutions and researchers create and have access to the most complete metadata, but that valuable metadata found in these local institutional repositories (IRs) are not making their way into global data infrastructure such as DataCite or Crossref. This panel examines the local to global spectrum of metadata completeness, including the challenges of obtaining quality metadata at a local level, specifically at Cornell University, and the loss of metadata during the transfer processes from IRs into global data infrastructure. The metadata completeness increases over time, as users reuse data and contribute to the metadata. As metadata improves and grows, users find and develop connections within data not previously visible to them. By feeding local IR metadata into the global data infrastructure, the global infrastructure starts giving back in the form of these connections. We believe that this information will be helpful in coordinating metadata better and more effectively across data repositories and creating more robust interoperability and reusability between and among IRs.
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    With great power comes great responsibility: Democratizing cultural heritage collections (or lack thereof)
    (ALA CORE Interest Groups, 2022-03-11) Bertoldi, Hanna; Griesinger, Peggy; Narlock, Mikala R.
    Libraries and museums are well-positioned to positively affect their users with the knowledge they produce, especially when publishing online collections. Through a process called “grooving,” the way knowledge is produced and how technology presents it affects the way we understand the world. Libraries and museums are in a position of power because of the trust the public gives them. GLAM institutions need to be aware that some collection items are more difficult to fit into these systems than others. These records with a “higher barrier of entry” require additional attention to make them more visible and findable in online collections beyond just the bare-minimum metadata. In this presentation, we will use the University of Notre Dame’s Marble (Museum, Archives, Rare Books, and Library Exploration platform) project as a case study to explore how linked open data can enhance discovery of GLAM collections, as well as some of the ethical concerns preventing access. As trusted cultural institutions, libraries and museums need to do better at involving local communities in the cataloging process and communicating the ambiguity, bias, nuance, and changeability of the metadata in their online catalogs to users. Catalogers need to be aware that the systems that we use can still prevent certain collections from being found, even if they are available online.