Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DCMI)
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The Development of Application Profile for the OAK Institutional Repository
No full textOAK (Open Access Korea) hosted by National Library of Korea is the national portal of institutional repository participating universities, public institutions, researches, and businesses. OAK has used OAK metadata based on DSpace to build OAK portal, and could not accommodate all the metadata elements that participant institutions wanted. Therefore, OAK could permit each institution to expand its metadata for its own appropriately. But this brought into missing data in harvesting data from IR member libraries, and developing redundant, disordered and inappropriate elements without device managing elements such as metadata registry. For solving these problems, this study is to suggest the OAK application profile through analyzing the metadata elements of member libraries and comparing metadata of the representative case such as DSpace, Eprints, BEPress, ETD-db, and dCollection
Towards Publishing European Poetry as Linked Open Data
No full textPOSTDATA is a 5 year's European Research Council (ERC)
Starting Grant Project that started in May 2016 and is hosted by the Universidad
Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain. The context of the
project is the corpora of European Poetry (EP), with a special focus on poetic
materials from different languages and literary traditions. POSTDATA aims to
offer a standardized model in the philological field and a metadata application
profile (MAP) for EP in order to build a common classification of all these
poetic materials. The information of Spanish, Italian and French repertoires
will be published in the Linked Open Data (LOD) ecosystem. Later we expect to
extend the model to include additional corpora. The final goal of the POSTDATA
project is: i) to be able to publish all the data locked in the WIS, in LOD,
where any agent interested will be able to build applications over the data in
order to serve final users; ii) to build a Web platform where: a) researchers,
students and other final users interested in EP will be able to access poems
(and their analyses) of all databases; b) researchers, students and other final
users will be able to upload poems, the digitalized images of manuscripts, and
fill in the information concerning the analysis of the poem, collaboratively
contributing to a LOD dataset of poetry
Creating a Linked Data-Friendly Metadata Application Profile for Archival Description
No full textThe objective of this poster is to provide an overview of efforts to apply and extend Schema.org for archives and archival description. The authors see the application of Schema.org and extensions as a low barrier means to publish easily consumable linked data about archival resources, institutions that hold them, and contextual entities such as people and organizations responsible for their creation
Integrated Learning of Metadata Quality Evaluation and Metadata Application Profile Development in a Graduate Metadata Course
No full textThis submission presents the graduate metadata courses offered by the X university and reports a case study of an experiment in the design of an advanced graduate metadata course. We made the changes to course design to facilitate the skill-building component and provide more efficient link between content-based learning and skill-based learning. Our goal was to ensure metadata learners develop not only the in-depth understanding of and interest in advanced metadata topics, but also the ability to clearly see the connections between these topics. In particular, the experiment included integrating the learning of the process of designing a local metadata application profile with evaluation of the quality of metadata, including assessing the ability of a standard metadata scheme or an application profile to capture and adequately represent important and unique attributes of information objects in a special collection. The benefits of this approach to the quality of learning were measured and are discussed
Enhancing Metadata though Standardization and Validation: Practical Application at the University of Kansas Libraries
No full textThe Digital Initiatives department at the University of Kansas Libraries is in the process of migrating digital collections and assets to a locally hosted instance of Islandora to serve as our primary digital repository. As a key part of this process, we are taking the opportunity to clean up, standardize, enhance through linked data, and validate our metadata records prior to ingest in this new system. Using a variety of open tools, we have developed a systematic and replicable method to create uniform metadata records that conform to our in-house guidelines and requirements
LD4PE: A Competency-based Guide to Linked Data Principles and Practices
Get PDFThe IMLS-funded Linked Data for Professional Education (LD4PE) project has developed a competency-based prototype referatory of Learning Resources for teaching and learning practices in the design, implementation, and management of Linked Data. This report summarizes the work of the project in developing: 1) an RDF-modeled “Competency Index for Linked Data” (Index) based on the Achievements Standards Network Description Language (ASN-DL) for describing formally promulgated competencies and benchmarks; 2) an openly available, web-based tool set to support the management of the Index; the generation of RDF metadata about Learning Resources; the packaging and arrangement of selected Learning Resources by users in “Saved Sets”; and the creation of learning trajectory maps expressing curricular structures or personal learning journeys superimposed over the competency framework through the integration of these elements as WordPress custom posts and taxonomies on the LD4PE website; 3) a set of cataloged Learning Resources that have been mapped to the competencies and benchmarks of the Index to support competency-based resource discovery by teachers, trainers and learners; 4) the LD4PE project website (http://explore.dublincore.net), which will be managed by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) as part of its educational agenda; and 5) a set of Best Practices describing the infrastructure and policies developed for the project that others can reuse in mapping future knowledge domains in a similar manner
'More Than What It Seems': How Critical Theory, Popular Engagement and Apps Like Tinder Can Help Us Reframe Metadata and Its Consequences
No full textMetadata is a term no longer only of interest to information professionals; recently, it has also compelled a wider global population. How might the metadata community guide popular understandings around metadata’s relationship to privacy, surveillance, and identity building, while also taking cues from the outside to complement current professional practice? Rather than taking at face value the definitions, presentations, skills, practices and situations that we are told constitute the concept of metadata, we can consider alternative and complementary thinking, broadening what we consider to be metadata at all; this process of rethinking is known as problematization and has its roots in critical theory. We use problematization, as well as critical theory constructs like Derrida’s différance and digital trace, to examine the popular dating site Tinder, which we consider to be metadata in its own right. In doing so, we make new assumptions about metadata and its implications in digitally-mediated identity construction. We hope that our effort—a contribution to Science and Technology Studies (STS) and also to metadata studies—has professional implications, such as providing companion methods for reading metadata-dependent systems as ‘material metadata discourse.’ We likewise hope to show that popular, wider-world discourse can cast back onto our profession in a meaningful way
Collaborative Metadata Application Profile Development for DAMS Migration
No full textIn 2015, after an extensive review process, the University of Houston (UH) Libraries chose the open source systems Hyku (then known as the Hydra-in-a-Box project), Archivematica, and ArchivesSpace to form the Libraries’ digital collections access and preservation ecosystem. This suite of systems, along with locally developed tools, form the Bayou City Digital Asset Management System (BCDAMS). In 2016, the BCDAMS Implementation Team began work on a multi-phase process to roll out the new systems to replace the current digital collections management system, CONTENTdm. Phase I of this process included developing fundamental models and principles as well as much of the local infrastructure and workflows. Phase II of the project will involve migrating existing digital collection metadata and files to the new digital asset management system (DAMS). This poster summarizes work done during Phase I of the project to prepare for the migration work in Phase II. This included working collaboratively to develop a Metadata Application Profile (MAP) and crosswalk, and an analysis of metadata remediation required to prepare for migration. It shares the UH Libraries unique experience in preparing for the migration of UH Digital Library (UHDL) data from CONTENTdm to a new system and offers some general considerations for DAMS migrations
The British National Bibliography: Who Uses Our Linked Data?
No full textThe British Library began publishing a Linked Open Data
(LOD) version of the British National Bibliography (BNB) in 2011 as part of its
open metadata strategy. The BNB SPARQL endpoint has continued to evolve since
that point with: new content, links and regular monthly updates. While
organisational benefits have been gained through staff familiarisation with,
Linked Data principles, data modelling and format translation, it has been
challenging to identify exactly how the Linked Data has been used and by whom?
While system logs capture basic information and anecdotal usage may be reported
via social media, conference events or help desk feedback, the lack of
independent tools similar to web analytics has made it difficult to gain
understanding of how the service is used in order to justify and target
investment. This paper describes a project between the British Library and
Fujitsu Ireland that examined the insights that could be gained from the
development and application of Linked Data analytics. The results indicate
Linked Data analytics offers publishers benefits in several areas including
organisational, service management, technical, and user support. Most
importantly at a time of funding restrictions, application of Linked Data
analytics offers publishers the ability to accurately assess the impact of their
data in order to more effectively target their scarce resources. In doing so
they can begin to manage LOD services as efficiently as their web equivalents
and continue the realisation of Linked Data’s potential for the
community
Towards a BIBFRAME Implementation: The bibliotek-o Framework
No full textbibliotek-o is a framework for modeling bibliographic metadata as linked data. Consisting of the BIBFRAME ontology at its core, the bibliotek-o ontology defines fragments of external ontologies and an application profile specifying the recommended implementation of these ontologies. This report presents the background and motivation behind the bibliotek-o framework, including an overview of the model, ontology principles and best practices guiding its development, a description of aligned tooling under development, and a report on the project’s status and outputs. A small sample of discrete patterns in which bibliotek-o deviates from BIBFRAME is provided to demonstrate motivations and modeling principles. Our goal is to illustrate the strengths of BIBFRAME, while suggesting areas where BIBFRAME should evolve to a more streamlined and expressive model. We aim to encourage feedback and community engagement in ongoing development of the framework outlined in this paper