CURATEcamp DLF Agenda
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Contents
Possible Discussion Topics
Tools
- Data normalization practices/tools ** (22 votes)
- User friendly tools for resolving IDs to labels (14)
- Drag & drop metadata mapping transform tool (18)
- GUI for creating MARC/RDA records (5)
- Tools for supporting cataloging by non-specialists *** (30)
- Automatic metadata extraction (
- Tools for routing metadata where it needs to go *
- Tools for navigating hierarchical controlled vocabularies
- What open source tools need to exist to create/use Linked Data
- Integrating controlled vocabularies into metadata creation tools
- Metadata editing/creation for repository submission, that handle multiple metadata standards
Workflow / Working with Data
- Preparing data for Linked Data environment ******
- Microservices to support cataloging/metadata work *
- Take a list of names, send to VIAF, get identifiers back **
- Connecting the various small tools in the metadata management chain ****
- Getting basic metadata out of born digital special collections acquisitions
- Infrastructure to mint URIs, share own Linked Data-style authority data
- Dealing with complex metadata standards in an environment with few resources
- (Controlled/metadata) vocabulary management *
- Metadata repurposing **
- Envisioning technical production infrastructure for SemWeb/Linked Data
Standards / Formats
- Metadata for data sets
- Leveraging MARC data outside of MARC, and vice-versa *
- Authority control in non-MARC environments
Meta
- How do we talk to each other? ******
- Writing functional requirements
- Explaining limits of data
- Communicating metadata needs
- Maintaining knowledgebases of information that's common among institutions
- How to educate oneself to move closer to the middle of the cataloger/coder continuum
- Promoting efficiency in metadata creation
- Place for sharing bits of code/tutorials that can be used by a typical cataloger/metadata specialist ****
- How to explain the utility of RDF as an underlying data model
- How to plan/execute events like this in the future (including hands-on)
- Extending good metadata management practices outside of libraries
- What's going on with the W3C LLD initiative?
- How to make the case for more robust metadata, through examples/the killer app
- What is the future of cataloging?
- RDA as rules vs. RDA as elements
