Report from the Metadata Task Group to the DAMEid
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In December 2017, the Repository and Metadata team were given a two part charge. 1. Reviewing the Charge which includes Putting schemas, standards and workflows into place in order to ensure interoperability and functionality across the systems of the DAME. Consult with relevant stakeholders in the DAME, including: including curators, the Digital Archivist and Digital Preservation Librarian, copyright experts, Digital Initiatives, the Office of Scholarly Communication, and the DAMEs Interfaces & Discovery group Focus primarily on metadata implementation with the DAMEs Repository stems 2. Recommending metadata schema for Fedora and DSpace Do an environmental scan that examines how other institutions have approached Fedora and DSpace Gather information concerning how metadata is stored and expressed in DSpace/Fedora. Make recommendations for moving between these systems and achieving interoperability Recommendations for schema, including preferred usage of controlled vocabularies Recommendations for approaching metadata (i.e. templates, collection level or format) Recommendations for assigning materials to either DSpace of Fedora Minimal Metadata requirements Recommendations for metadata creation workflow
