Samvera Metadata Interest Group

Owned by Bill Branan
Last updated: Jul 17, 2024 by Annamarie Klose
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Scope & Objectives

The Samvera Metadata Interest Group (SMIG) is interested in working together on base metadata recommendations for the Samvera Community. The scope of this group concentrates primarily on metadata as it relates to Samvera projects such as Hyrax, Hyku, and Avalon Media System. Types of metadata for which the group has or intends to create recommendations include technical, structural, descriptive, and rights metadata.

The larger goals of the Metadata Interest Group are to:

  • Identify models that may help Samvera newcomers
  • Further interoperability among Samvera projects
  • Provide support for the community and a place to ask metadata questions in Samvera
  • Provide ways to share metadata work (in progress or complete)
  • Collect documentation in order to more broadly facilitate shared modeling
  • Develop and charge working groups for Samvera community metadata activities

This interest group is not creating a new standard or implying any metadata constraints for Samvera projects.

Scope & Objectives and meeting frequency will be reviewed annually (around the time of Samvera Connect).

Sunset milestone: No meeting occurs for 6 months (at that point there will clearly be no interest in this interest group)

Members

Membership is open to anyone. If you want to be listed as a member, please add your name to the list below.
Members agree that by participating all documents produced as part of the working group will be released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 Unported License. 

  • Annamarie Klose, co-chair (The Ohio State University)
  • Emma Beck, co-chair (University of Louisville)
  • Nora Zimmerman, (Lafayette College)
  • Anna Goslen, (UNC-Chapel Hill)
  • Julie Hardesty, (Indiana University)
  • jen young (Northwestern University Libraries)
  • Ryan Wick (Oregon State University)
  • Sarah Beth Seymore (University of Oregon)
  • Emily Stenberg (Washington Univ. in St. Louis)
  • Cara Key (Oregon State University)
  • Gretchen Gueguen (PALCI)
  • Meredith Hale (University of Tennessee)
  • Ilkay Holt (Advancing Hyku/ British Library)
  • Paige Walker (Tufts University, Tisch Library)

Meeting Times & Communication Channels

Updates to Community

Updates and announcements will be sent to samvera-community, samvera-tech, samvera-metadata, islandora, and fedora-community lists.

Metadata IG

Time: 4th Tuesday of every month, 2-3pm Eastern.  Call duration: 1 hour

Call-In Info: https://osu.zoom.us/j/92616270540?pwd=VzN6bEVlR3NGbjZDdFNueWpRUVMvQT09

Subgroups may have additional working meeting calls. Outcomes and questions will be discussed at the Metadata Interest Group meeting calls and then updates sent to the lists.

Active Work

URI Selection Working Group

Time: First meeting Friday, April 14 (9am PDT)

Call-In Info: +1 (641) 715 3660, access code 651025


Descriptive Metadata Working Group

Time: started 2015/05/13, currently on pause; MODS and RDF Descriptive Metadata Subgroup, currently on pause

Access: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/g2jey2y5cjcnggkmymxziudmw4a


Affiliated: Geo Predicates Working Group

OAI Documentation Working Group

Time: First meeting on Monday, May 15, 2023, 2-3 pm Eastern

Access: https://osu.zoom.us/j/98331051969?pwd=NExOck8walMySHdGcVhId3pMcUJEQT09

Completed Work

Applied Linked Data Working Group

**Work Completed***

Hyrax Metadata Ordering Working Group

**Work Completed***

URI Management Working Group

**Work Completed***

Rights Metadata Working Group

**Work Completed***

Subgroup may be reconvened if additional rights metadata questions come to the Metadata WG.

Segment of a File Structural Metadata Working Group

***Work Completed***

Subgroup may be reconvened if additional outcomes are required from the Metadata WG.

Technical Metadata Working Group

**Work Completed*** 

Subgroup may be reconvened if additional outcomes are required from the Metadata WG.

Machine-readable Metadata Modeling Specification Working Group

**Work Completed**

Controlled Vocabularies Decision Tree Working Group

**Work Completed**

Hyrax v3.0 Metadata Application Profile Documentation Review Working Group - Deliverables & Timeframe

**Work Completed**


First phase deliverables are marked for concurrent work. See specific working group pages for timelines.  Phase 1 completed by Sufia PCDM May sprint (2015). Phase 2 completed by Hydra Connect 2015. A full report will be given at HydraConnect 2015. 

Phase 1 is complete. Currently working on Phase 2 for Descriptive Metadata, Applied Linked Data, and URI Management. A report was given at HydraConnect 2016.

Additional Resources may be available on working group pages:

Meeting Notes

Previous Work

Metadata IG Requests and Priorities

Past Members