Metadata Collaboration

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Metadata Collaboration

• Metadata in the Colorado Digitization Project and
  the Western Trails Digitization Project
• Prepared for
• Fish, Fungus and Photos Librarians as Metadata
  Collaborators
• By
• William A. Garrison
• June 16, 2002

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Project Participants

• Museums
• Historical societies
• Libraries (public and academic)
• Archives
• Special libraries

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Metadata in the CDP

• Examined existing standards and guidelines
  including DC, EAD, VRA, GILS, etc.
• Concluded that DC elements best suited the CDPs
  needs
• Recommended best practices
• Determined core elements
• Added new elements

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Workshops

• Introduction to Digitization
• Introduction to Scanning
• Introduction to Metadata
• Advanced Metadata and Record Builder

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Workshop Content

• Teach Dublin Core element set
• CDP elements/requirements
• Special needs of various communities
• Examples
• How to examine materials to be digitized to
  determine descriptive, administrative and
  structural metadata needs

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Success of Collaboration

• Learning to talk to each other
• Help/advice/guidance offered at any stage
• Colorado project allows each participating
  institution to use the system that it has in
  place or to use the DC Record Builder
• Some partnerships were formed between
  institutions (e.g. Lafayette Public Library and
  Lafayette Miners Museum)

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Success continued

• Resource people identified
• Resources available on the web
• Record Builder manual
• Documentation
• Scanning cannot be the only thing done
• Reality check about accessibility

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Western Metadata Summit

• Colorado
• Nebraska
• Wyoming
• Kansas

• Minnesota
• Utah
• New Mexico
• Arizona

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URLs

• Colorado Digitization Project http//coloradodigit
  al.coalliance.org/
• Kansas State Library http//skyways.lib.ks.us/KSL/
  trails/
• Wyoming Western Trails
  http//www-wsl.state.wy.us/trails/partners.html
• Nebraska Library Commission http//www.nlc.state.n
  e.us/westerntrails/

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URLs continued

• CDP Workshops http//coloradodigital.coalliance.or
  g/workshop.html
• CDP Metadata http//coloradodigital.coalliance.org
  /glines.html
• CDP Core Elements http//coloradodigital.coallianc
  e.org/glines.htmlCDP
• CDP Guidelines and Standards http//coloradodigita
  l.coalliance.org/standard.html