Metadata Workflow/Management UnConference

Metadata Workflow/Mgmt (Dampeer)

Moderator: Chris Powell
Notes: Russell Schelby
Convener: Anusha Ranganathan

Chris Powell: What do people use to work on metadata and view it?

• Oxygen
• forms, excel ingest, content dm,
• built-in spreadsheet-like editor

Anusha Ranganathan,

• in repository, not visible to people
• people whose job it is just to review, mainly copyright checks, embargo checks
• few metadata enhancements
• very simple project, once it is submitted,
• review process has several steps
• review, escalated, rejected (rare: duplicate), approved
• once approved gets migrated
• software to track? manual XML
• built hydra admin to move things between buckets: archive to Open Archive
• has ties to request tracker, which handles email trail, email ticket tracking
• metadata as a service, only Northwestern is doing that
• Declan Fleming: Research Data program, meet with faculty, look at data sets, sometimes it is cosmos scale

Chris Awres: we do metadata modeling

• no real ontologies for most stuff, can’t validate
• moderator: does like looking at data sets and cleaning up say spreadsheet column names
• lots of data is someone’s spreadsheets
• “look at the red column, it means something”
• USC Karma - lets you link headers to ontology
• basic metadata - data management plan required for grants, we need to know what the files are

Alicia Morris, Tufts

• basic recommendations, i.e. text files describing data set
• student scholarship - staging environment, clean up metadata, push to production
• identify high-value content
• image library - working with faculty in art history department, having students fill out spreadsheet to describe course images; library cleans up this metadata with scripts to correct punctuation, capitalization, then ingested into repository

Penn State: Would like to get away from spreadsheets

• linked data/active triples might alleviate this from a coding exercise
• tough to validate a spreadsheet
• how do collections go from selection to digital collection? lots of people involved, lots of technologies
• Declan: we’ve embraced spreadsheets: provide templates to staff
• Moderator: getting vendor data back is frustrating: mac/windows artifacts
• would it be worth it to write a head for a generic metadata editor?
• Mike Giarlo: There is a gem that does that

Andrew Rouner, Wash U

• surprised that self-submission as default - wouldn’t expect to have any pre-prints: faculty are busy
• would be interested in having a discussion about that model
• note: Oxygen can integrate with some systems, maybe hydra?

Michael, Penn State

• we agreed on a workflow, pushing forward with a pilot project: a workflow around a Hydra project
• thinking about HydraDAM workflow, describe the same object through different
• Declan: we use JIRA - everyone is in JIRA, can attach spreadsheets
• Oregon has taught their catalogers in GIT
• making this a Gem would be worthwhile, watch the

Question

• What tools are you using for creating RDF metadata?
• Aaron Colburn has a unique way, is building fedora classes not the fly, uses OWL
• Tom Johnson was also creating a similar system
• BibFrame editor would create an RDF, doesn’t necessarily need bibFrame backend