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Getting comfortable with metadata reuse

Getting comfortable with metadata reuse. Jenn Riley Twitter: @ jenlrile Head, Carolina Digital Library and Archives University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. We want our metadata to be useful. So we can’t stop our efforts at discovery systems we run. And formats we define.

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Getting comfortable with metadata reuse

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  1. Getting comfortable with metadata reuse Jenn Riley Twitter: @jenlrile Head, Carolina Digital Library and Archives University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  2. We want our metadata to be useful. So we can’t stop our efforts at discovery systems we run. RBMS 2013: Metadata, The Reboot And formats we define.

  3. David Weinberger. Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder. New York: Times Books, 2007. People make their own connections It’s impossible to predict (and provide metadata for) them all Knowledge isn’t fixed RBMS 2013: Metadata, The Reboot

  4. “Customers, patrons, users, and citizens are not waiting for permission to take control of finding and organizing information… Knowledge—its content and its organization—is becoming a social act.” RBMS 2013: Metadata, The Reboot “The solution to the overabundance of information is more information.” Weinberger, p. 133, p. 13

  5. Weinberger’s framework First order organization arranging things – constrained by physicality for us, the shelves Second order organization surrogate for the physical thing, with a few additional expert provided access points RBMS 2013: Metadata, The Reboot for us, MARC records, EAD finding aids Third order organization all connections between things that anyone can imagine for us, the web, Linked Data, users, and connections to other data sources

  6. Linked Data is an opportunity for us to promote third-order engagement with special collections metadata. RBMS 2013: Metadata, The Reboot

  7. But what about context? RBMS 2013: Metadata, The Reboot

  8. EAD: context through Linked Data RBMS 2013: Metadata, The Reboot “Guide to the Bakery, Confectionery, and Tobacco Workers International Union Printed Ephemera Collection,” NYU Tamiment Library & Rober F. Wagner Labor Archives. RDF/Turtle data generated from EAD courtesy of Corey Harper, NYU Libraries.

  9. That’s a start. But what if we then… Started the process of creating links to other things? Moved to native Semantic Web technologies? Promoted discovery interfaces that take advantage of multiple contexts? RBMS 2013: Metadata, The Reboot Feed what we learn back into our second-order metadata practices? Provided full text, usage data, information on our processes…?

  10. Provenance is one of many possible contexts. Allow users to create their own. RBMS 2013: Metadata, The Reboot

  11. But what about authority? Quality? Control? RBMS 2013: Metadata, The Reboot

  12. “Second order organization…is often as much about authority as about making things easier to find.” RBMS 2013: Metadata, The Reboot Weinberger, p. 22

  13. It’s time to let go. The benefits outweigh the risks. We never had that much control in the first place. RBMS 2013: Metadata, The Reboot Let the users evaluate the source of information, decide what’s relevant and appropriate to them.

  14. “Third order practices…are the Trojan horse of the information age. As we all get used to them, third-order practices undermine some of our most deeply ingrained ways of thinking about the world and our knowledge of it.” RBMS 2013: Metadata, The Reboot We must respond by rethinking our practices. Quote from Weinberger, p. 22

  15. And now to Aaron and Matthew for some more exploration of how to do this. Thanks! jennriley@unc.edu @jenlrile on Twitter RBMS 2013: Metadata, The Reboot These presentation slides:http://www.lib.unc.edu/users/jlriley/presentations/rbms2013/rileyRBMS2013.pptx

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