This page was created to manage a central location for requests to the Metadata Interest Group. The Metadata Interest Group will review at each call and determine action and work groups if needed.
Requests for work by the Metadata Interest Group
| Date Requested | Request | Use case | Supporting information | Request made by/ Contact info | Working Group |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-12-10 | Best practices for visualizing metadata | Digital Commons Network sunburst for discovery + Metadata fingerprints to optimize metadata assignation | Silvia Gutiérrez | ||
| 2016-02-09 | Best practices for deciding on ontologies to use/filling ontology needs | Samvera GIS Data Modeling Working Group ontology needs | Looking at GeoRSS, W3C Basic Geo vocab, and GeoJSON but not finding complete coverage; GeoRSS could be used but needs an RDF expression | James Griffin III | |
| 2015-10-07 | Best practices for hosting Samvera-specific vocabs - http://opaquenamespace.org/ ? | https://github.com/projecthydra/sufia/issues/1327; Boston Public Library (and other institutions) already using opaquenamespace for local controlled vocabs | Related to Best Practices for minting new URIs | Samvera developers | URI Management Working Group |
| 2015-08 | Best Practices for minting new URIs | Possibly looking at both minting for predicates and minting for local controlled vocabs (objects) | URI Management Working Group | ||
| 2015-08 | FITS XML to RDF | WGBH wants to bring FITS-specific XML in as RDF properties in Phydo to allow for search and discovery based on technical metadata properties of an object. Also interest in EXIF, FFProbe, and PBCore XML as RDF properties, so pulling in properties from various tech md, depending on what is available. | Something already in place in Hydra::Works for FITS - https://github.com/projecthydra-labs/hydra-works/tree/master/lib/hydra/works/characterization/schema EXIF has RDF expression - http://www.w3.org/2003/12/exif/ | ||
| 2015-08 | Content-type specific technical metadata recommendations | Top requests: images, video, audio | 2015-11-21 AMIA '15 face-to-face might have interest in audio and video tech md profiles | ||
| 2015-10 | Model representative examples of Portland Common Data Model in RDF | Documentation for Hydra::Works Tutorial | |||
| More information needed/out of scope | |||||
| 2015-08 | Best Practice guide for caching and indexing in Solr | Applied Linked Data WG | |||
| 2015-10 | Document practice for metadata describing relationships for variations | derivatives, thumbnails, additional metadata as file | |||
| 2015-08 | Best practices on using multiple schemas/vocabularies | Descriptive WG | |||
| 2015-08 | Best Practices for adding information to existing URIs | ||||
| 2015-10-30 | Best practices for representing people (also events, places, other non-object entities) | suggestions so far: FOAF, VIVO, schema.org; conversation and use cases on hydra-tech: [metadata ig] PCDM for people? | Rick Johnson | ||
Work in Progress
- Samvera rights to Web ACLs - Waiting for Fedora sprint
- Collect User Stories for Descriptive Metadata Practices - Descriptive Metadata Working Group
- How to handle MODS XML in RDF environment - MODS and RDF Descriptive Metadata Subgroup
- Implementing Linked Data Fragments - Samvera Applied Linked Data Interest Group
Completed Work
- Base technical metadata application profile - Technical Metadata Working Group
- FITS recommendation, if using FITS, to use FITS output captured as a NonRdfSource repository object; see "Detailed Technical Metadata Captured as XML"
in technical metadata application profile - Technical Metadata Working Group - Recommended tools for technical metadata and paths for integration with Hydra projects - Technical Metadata Working Group
- Rights metadata recommendation - Rights Metadata Working Group
- Referring to segments of a file - Recommendation - Segment of a File Structural Metadata Working Group