Together We Make It Work! – Metadata Collaboration in UIC Libraries

Together We Make It Work! – Metadata Collaboration in UIC Libraries

This presentation is a case study that discusses the successful collaboration between different departments within our university library to improve our metadata. The collaboration combined library faculty and staff knowledge of metadata standards from our Resource Acquisition and Management Department (RAM), an understanding of the user assessment/experience perspective from our Digital Programs & Services Department (DP&S), and a more content-oriented perspective from our Department of Special Collections and University Archives. A cross-departmental Metadata Working Group was created to develop new Metadata Guidelines, in conjunction with a project to analyze and clean up our legacy metadata. These two projects facilitated needed standardization of our digital collections metadata, and improved coordination of our standards with those of aggregate systems and projects we were involved in. The resulting positive impacts include improved communication and workflows and resulted in higher quality metadata that better meets user needs. We will also cover how the work above prepared us to migrate into a new Digital Asset Management System (DAMS).

Darcovich, Jane

Flynn, Kate

Li, Mingyan

https://midwest.chapters.cala-web.org/2019-cala-midwest-chapter-annual-conference-program/

Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA)

2019-04-24

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