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JENN RILEY METADATA LIBRARIAN INDIANA UNIVERSITY DIGITAL LIBRARY PROGRAM Making Future Metadata Shareable

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Riley, Jenn. "Making Future Metadata Shareable." Missouri Library Association Annual Conference, October 2, 2008, St. Louis, MO.

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JENN RILEYMETADATA LIBRARIAN

INDIANA UNIVERSITY DIGITAL LIBRARY PROGRAM

Making Future Metadata Shareable

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What does this record describe?

<dc:title>Bowie County Texas (County Number 19, Supplementary Sheet D)</dc:title>

<dc:creator>Texas Transportation Planning and Programming Division.</dc:creator>

<dc:subject>Texarkana</dc:subject><dc:subject>Kennedy Lake</dc:subject><dc:subject>Coca Cola Lake</dc:subject><dc:subject>Hobo Jungle Park</dc:subject><dc:publisher>The General Libraries, University of

State</dc:publisher><dc:identifier>http://library.university.edu/raw/

tcbowid1.html</dc:identifier>

Record harvested via OAI PMH 2-26-2007

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And this one?

<dc:identifier>http://museum.university.edu/unique identifier</dc:identifier><dc:publisher>State University Museum of Ichthyology, Fish Field Notes</dc:publisher><dc:format>jpeg</dc:format><dc:rights>These pages may be freely searched and displayed. Permission must be received for subsequent distribution in print or electronically. Please go to http://museum,univeristy,edu/ for more information.</dc:rights><dc:type>image</dc:type><dc:description>1926; 0070; 06; Little S. Br. Pere Marquette R.; THL26-68; 71300; 71301; 71302; 71303; 71304; 71305; 71306; 71307; 71308; 71309; 07; 1926/07/06; R12W; S09; Second collector Moody; T16N</dc:description><dc:subject>Cottus bairdi; Esox lucius; Cottus cognatus; Etheostoma nigrum; Salmo trutta; Oncorhynchus mykiss; Catostomus commersoni; Pimephales notatus; Margariscus margarita; Rhinichthys atratulus; mottled sculpin; northern pike; slimy sculpin; johnny darter; brown trout; rainbow trout; white sucker; bluntnose minnow…</dc:subject><dc:language>UND</dc:language><dc:source>Michigan 1926 Langlois, v. 1 1926--1926; </dc:source>

Record harvested via OAI PMH 2-27-2007

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Why Share?

Sharing benefits users One-stop searching (maybe) Ability to create customized searches of specific

domains Brings together distributed collections

Sharing benefits your institution Increases exposure of collections Broadens user base Potentially adds collaboration opportunities We can no longer assume that users will come through

the front door—sharing metadata gets us “in the flow”

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Sharing better allows our users to help us

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Sharing metadata: Federated search

The distributed databases are searched directly.

Mill?<title>My resource</title><date>04

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<title>My resource</title><date>04

For Example:

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Sharing metadata: Data aggregation

The user searches a pre-aggregated database of metadata from diverse sources.

Mill?

<title>My resource</title><date>04

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Some other options for sharing

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<title>My resource</title><date>04

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Collection Registries

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GEMPhotograph from Indiana University

Charles W. Cushman Collection

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Today’s metadata aggregation environment

Users often discover material through shared records, not through your front door

Users don’t know about your collection or won’t remember it

Shared records lead users to local environment where full context is available

Because users enter through “deep” links, they may bypass introductory information that provides the larger context for a collection

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Finding the right balance

Metadata providers know the materials Document encoding schemes, controlled

vocabularies, and metadata creation practices Ensure record validity

Aggregators have the processing power Format conversion Reconcile known vocabularies Normalize data Batch metadata enhancement

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Shareable Metadata…

Is quality metadata Promotes search interoperability - “the

ability to perform a search over diverse sets of metadata records and obtain meaningful results” (Priscilla Caplan)

Is human understandable outside of its local context

Is useful outside of its local contextPreferably is machine processable

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Shareable Metadata as a View

Metadata is not monolithicMetadata should be a view projected from a

single information objectCreate multiple views appropriate for

groups of important sharing venuesDepends on:

Use Audience

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The Cs & Ss of Shareable Metadata

ContentCoherence

ContextCommunication

ConsistencyConformance to

Standards

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Postcard Dublin Core record

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Basic metadata sharing workflow

Write metadata creation

guidelines

Choose standard

s for native

metadata

Who to share with?

Choose shared

metadata

formats

Plan

Create metadata (thinking about

shareability)

Create

Perform conceptual mapping

Perform technical mapping

Validate transformed

metadata

Test shared metadata with

protocol conformance

tools

Transform

Implement sharing protocol

Share

Communicate with aggregators

See who is collecting your

metadata

Review your metadata in aggregations

Assess

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Three possible OAI-PMH workflows

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Shareable metadata isn’t just about OAI-PMH

Some other options:Lightweight APIs (e.g., OpenLibrary)Google SiteMapsOpenSearchOpenURLSRUOAI-ORELinked data

Jim Michalko, RLG: library data sharing mechanisms are “high value and low participation”

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Notice Z39.50 isn’t on this list.

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Crosswalking – conceptual mapping

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Pathways to Digital Information - Crosswalks

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Crosswalking - XSLT

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Working around system limitations

Many digital asset management systems don’t support a second shareable copy of records

Do your best to split the difference with system records

Use creative interface design for your local system

Use extra-protocol documentation for communicating with aggregators

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Before you share…

Look at the record as the aggregator will see it Appropriate view? Consistent? Context provided? Does the aggregator have what they need? Documented?

Can a stranger tell you what the record describes?

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Thank you!

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Questions?For more information:

[email protected] These presentation slides:

<http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/~jenlrile/presentations/molib2008/mla2008.ppt>

Shreeves, Sarah L., Jenn Riley, and Liz Milewicz. "Moving towards shareable metadata." First Monday 11, no. 8 (7 August 2006). <http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_8/shreeves/index.html>