Making the Most of your Descriptive Metadata: Planning, Transforming, and Re-using
Presented by Marisa Ramirez and Nancy Fallgren
Wednesday March 24, 2010 – 1:00 to 2:00 pm
Ellis 4G41
Metadata is essential for organizing, searching, and managing information resources, particularly as libraries expand their efforts in making their collections available on the web. Libraries are populating institutional repositories with a myriad of resources, including digitized special collections materials, finding aids, electronic theses, peer-reviewed faculty work and other research, scholarship and creative outputs. But what are libraries doing about the descriptive metadata that allows users to search, find, and select these resources in their repositories? What redundancies are created when libraries engage in collecting, enhancing, or redistributing metadata in siloed systems? Can redundant metadata generation efforts be streamlined? We will discuss some current descriptive metadata practices in institutional repositories, identify areas where redundant efforts may occur, and discuss strategies to improve management, collection, and re-use of descriptive metadata. The webinar requires a basic understanding of metadata and XML.
The consortial-campus view: Reinventing the IR from all directions
Presented by Sharon Farb, Bonnie Tijerina, and Catherine Mitchell
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 – 1:00 to 2:00 pm
Ellis 4G41
The California Digital Library supports the 10 University of California campuses’ institutional repository and campus publishing efforts through the development and central hosting of eScholarship. This presentation will give an overview of a centralized model and the scholarly publishing initiatives taking place at the University of California. The director of the Publishing Group at the CDL will begin the conversation with an overview of the publishing and dissemination services available through eScholarship and the outreach and marketing campaign recently launched in conjunction with the UC campuses. An eScholarship Liaison from UCLA will discuss the role of campus librarians in this model and highlight successful faculty and graduate student publications which transitioned from print to online journals. The presentation will conclude with a library administrator’s perspective on new roles for academic libraries and how this works fits in the mission of the institution.