Engineering Access Under the Hood, Part Two: Enhancing & Harmonizing Metadata for Discovery & Use
Date and Time: Wednesday, November 15, 2017, 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. (Eastern Time)
Paying by credit card? Register online for Part 2. To learn more about both segments of this two-part webinar, visit the NISO event page.
Who is speaking on November 15 and what will they be addressing?
Eliminating Conflicts in Ebook Metadata
Patricia Payton, Senior Manager, Provider Relations,
Proquest/Bowker
Harmonizing and enhancing ebook metadata to print metadata is a focus for many publishers. Yet there is still work to be done. Some variations may occur including sales rights, publication dates, and pricing. Learn more about ebook metadata pitfalls by understanding how data recipients read and interpret your data. Also learn how NISO is bringing publishers and librarians together to set best practices for key ebook metadata points.
Conglomerating and Collocating Collections without
Convoluted Concoction
Scott Anderson, Associate Professor & Information Systems
Librarian, Millersville University
Scott Anderson will discuss how Millersville University is working with several vendor partners (Atlas Systems / EBSCO / TIND) to inject local / special collections content into its own discovery service and expose those collections to the open web via linked data. The idea is to use as much of the same workflow to harvest from finding aids, repositories, local catalog(s), into MARC defined elements to be transformed into linked data for the open web and associated applications, ingest into other local services, and perhaps collocated with identified subscription products.
Manipulating Metadata to Enhance Access
Marilyn White, E-Resource Librarian, Briget Wynne, Reference
and Interlibrary Loan Librarian, and Katelynd
Bucher, Metadata Librarian, Research Library Group, National
Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST)
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Research Library is a
federal library located in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The NIST Research Library’s
mission is to support and enhance the research activities of the NIST
scientific and technological community through a comprehensive program of
knowledge management.
To fulfill this mission, the Library makes available to its researchers the
following: proprietary databases, journals and e-books. In addition, the
Library makes available to the public, agency content such as: the NIST Digital
Archives (NDA), oral histories, photo collections, NIST Museum objects, and
NIST authored technical publications. The Library also supports the publication
and digitization of the agency’s Journal of Research NIST and NIST Technical
Series reports.
This presentation will discuss how the advances in the technological landscape
and user behavior have influenced changes in the Library over a period of 25
years and how we have arrived at our current hybrid configuration. We will also
look at the decisions and challenges we face to make our systems compatible and
how we have made uniformity in our metadata to disseminate our content across multiple
platforms. We will give an overview of our current environment as well as
discuss specific metadata tools and processes we used to achieve our goals.
The Library has content housed in a variety of platforms such as: Govinfo,
Internet Archive, our agency repository (NIST Digital Archive), our own
publication servers at the agency as well as registration of our DOIs with
CrossRef. In addition, we also are now depositing our NIST-authored, externally
reviewed content with PubMed Central. All these various entities require their
unique metadata formats. In addition to this, we have also launched our
discovery layer which acts as a single search mechanism on campus, for
researchers to access all our proprietary content and agency publications.
We’ll discuss how we corralled all our metadata, created consistencies across
platforms and made our discovery layer work within the confines of our hybrid
system.
Because of our efforts, we anticipate increased discovery and use of our
proprietary resources and agency publications. We hope we will see an increased
impact through frequent citing of NIST authored content which will raise the
agency’s profile in the scientific community.
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