i bet you clean up real nice: makeover your metadata for maximum interoperability
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Makeover Your Metadata for Maximum Interoperability
I Bet You Clean Up
Real Nice
Heather GilbertDigital Scholarship Librarian, College of Charleston
SCLA/SELA Joint Conference, Greenville, SC November 13, 2013
South Carolina Digital Library
• SCDL Aggregates Content from Across the State
• Over 50 Partner Institutions• 3 Major Regions: Coastal, Midlands &
Upstate• 200,000 items• Provides Metadata Templates,
Documentation, Digitization Standards and Best Practices
SCDL & the DPLA
• Asked to be One of the First 6 DPLA Service Hubs
• DPLA Required Legacy Metadata Correction
• 200,000 Items Across Three Major Regions and a Variety of Platforms
= A Lot of Potential for Correction
Our Messy Metadata
• The Importance of Controlled Vocabularies– Format (Internet Media Type) = MIME
Type– Media Type, Type = Local CV & DCMI
Type– Subject & SC County = LOC please!
• Standardize Your Formats– Date Fields = ISO 8601 This means no circa dates
Why Clean It Up?
• Polished Metadata:– Increased
Interoperability– Facets Nicely =
Browses Better– Higher Results
Accuracy– Relevant Nationally
• DPLA Compliant
Open Refine Your Data
http://openrefine.org/Free, web-based, open source application for cleaning up, transforming and using APIs to extend your data
Documentation AplentyUsing Open Refine (Verborgh, De Wilde)http://openrefine.org/documentation.htmlhttps://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/wiki
Open Refine - Create
Open Refine - Create
Open Refine - Edit
Open Refine - Edit
Open Refine - Edit
Open Refine - Edit
Open Refine - Export
@LCDigitalLib @Itsalikelystory gilberthj@cofc.edu
lcdl.library.cofc.edu scmemory.org
Thank You!
Heather GilbertDigital Scholarship Librarian, College of CharlestonProject Coordinator, Lowcountry Digital Library
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