ALCTS Metadata Interest Group

Metadata Interest Group Midwinter Meeting 2019 Presentation Slides

  • 1.  Metadata Interest Group Midwinter Meeting 2019 Presentation Slides

    Posted Feb 08, 2019 04:53 PM

    Crowdsourcing Metadata Panel


    Presenters and abstracts:

    Samuel T. Barber

    Cataloging & Metadata Librarian

    California State University, Fullerton

    Bio: Following a semi-successful semi-professional career as a musician, recording artist and sound engineer, Samuel T. Barber emigrated from the UK to the USA in 2013 with a newly-acquired MILS from the University of Strathclyde, Scotland, and a renewed desire to contribute to the advancement of librarianship and information science. Past cataloging and metadata work at Glasgow University, the Autry National Center and Cal State Fullerton has included exposing hidden collections formerly owned by luminaries ranging from the Scots psychiatrist R.D. Laing to Los Angeles author, ethnographer, historian and 'celebrity librarian' Charles Fletcher Lummis. His main research interest is the crowdsourcing of descriptive metadata and related interfaces, which he believes merit the term 'revolutionary cataloging interfaces'. Samuel's favorite book is 'What's going on' by Marvin Gaye, and yes, he's fully aware that this is a record and not a book.

    Crowdsourcing metadata: the revolutionary cataloging interface and how it can help your library expose and promote hidden collections

    This presentation draws on recently completed original research (in press, to be published in the Journal of Library Metadata, vol. 18, issue 2) to analyze and explain the automated quality control features of Zooniverse's crowdsourcing metadata platform. The results, it is argued, are truly revolutionary. Case studies are cited to demonstrate successful use of the platform by major institutions including the University of Oxford, the Folger, the Imperial War Museum and the Huntington. Similar initiatives based on proprietary platforms designed by the Smithsonian and the National Archives are also noted. Clearly, therefore, crowdsourcing of metadata to expose and promote hidden collections is a significant and rapidly growing development in libraries, archives and museums. We conclude with a description of an experimental project at Cal State Fullerton designed to ascertain whether such developments can succeed at a local institutional level. Finally, an invitation is extended for attendees to consider whether such initiatives may also be implemented for the benefit of their own respective institutions and users.

    Andrea Payant

    Metadata Librarian

    Utah State University

    Bio: Andrea Payant is the Metadata Librarian at USU's Merrill-Cazier Library. She has been working for USU Libraries for over ten years. She received her MLIS from San Jose State University. Her research interests include metadata quality benchmarks, research data management, crowdsourcing metadata, and technical services outreach.

    Becky Skeen

    Special Collections Cataloging Librarian

    Utah State University

    Bio: Becky Skeen is the Special Collections Cataloging Librarian at Utah State University's Merrill-Cazier Library. She coordinates a majority of Special Collections cataloging projects for her library and helps with the creation of metadata for special collections' digitized materials.

     

    Wisdom of the Crowd: Successful ways to engage the public in metadata creation

    Utah State University Libraries' Cataloging and Metadata Unit has successfully used several methods to engage the public in metadata creation for USU's Digital History Collections. Most, if not all the techniques we have tested, have yielded positive results and have improved the relevancy and accuracy of our descriptive metadata. During this presentation we will discuss different tools and techniques we have used to foster communication between our metadata specialists and the communities they serve, as well as approaches that were tried and did not yield the results we were hoping for. Attendees will be able to see what has been done at Utah State University and take those ideas and create new innovative approaches to collect crowdsourcing metadata at their own institutions.



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    Anna Neatrour
    Digital Initiatives Librarian
    University of Utah
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