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Will Peaden

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Welcome to the Legacy Metadata eforum
« on: October 21, 2019, 06:20:01 pm »
Hi everyone,

Welcome the inaugural eforum of the Merican Metadata Group. I had a few discussions with other members about the format of this offering and decided that doing in a traditional forum platform was the best way. Hopefully, we can get the discussions flowing over the course of the day and feel free to lurk in the background and just take it in. I hope this format will also better enable collaboration over the long term as we will have a point of reference to look back to.

Over the course of the event, I will post an introductory topic under the sub-boards of Legacy Metadata eforum. Each board will be a distinct area for discussion but there will be cross over as time goes by. I will try to moderate the discussions in the right places. I will post some general remarks and introductory matter in each one to set the tone for the discussions.  I will post a new topic if the discussions begin to dry up or every 35 minutes. You can reply to each topic directly, or to each others replies, or create new topics in the sub-boards to pursue some area of interest. As the day goes by, please feel free to continue posting to topics that are already up and running. Also, once the official event is over we can continue to use the board as a place to initiate any collaborations or continue discussions. Anyone not able to attend the event will also be able to read and post after the event. I will also send out email notifications to the Mercian list when a new discussion is posted.

The agenda for the day is as follows:

  • 10.00: Welcome and introduction
  • 10.10: 1: Setting the scene. What legacy metadata do we have?
  • 10.45: 2. Legacy metadata and its impact on our collection
  • 11.20: 3. The benefits of metadata improvement or enhancement?
  • 11.55: 4. How do we create improve our legacy collection metadata?
  • 12.30: 5. How do we get our managers interested in metadata work?
  • 13.05: 6. The impact of metadata on collection development and management
  • 13.40: 7. Collaboration and a common set of principles
  • 14.15: 8. Conclusion

Before we begin it would be useful if we could introduce ourselves and our institution below. You should reply to this message to do this.
« Last Edit: October 23, 2019, 02:37:58 pm by Will Peaden »

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Will Peaden

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Re: Welcome to the Legacy Metadata eforum
« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2019, 10:03:33 am »
I'll go first! I am Will Peaden from Aston University. I've worked for Aston for 3 years and before that worked at Warwick University.

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Re: Welcome to the Legacy Metadata eforum
« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2019, 10:03:52 am »
Hi all

I am Corinne Lambert, I work as a Metadata Specialist at the University of Leicester Library. I have worked here for many years so I am familiar with our legacy metadata and I have created some of it...


Lynne D

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Re: Welcome to the Legacy Metadata eforum
« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2019, 10:08:37 am »
Hi!

I'm Lynne, and I've been in the cataloguing department (under various team names!) at De Montfort University (Leicester) for 33.5 years (not that I'm counting). Like everyone else, we have legacy data: like Corrine, I'm pretty sure I created some of it!!

Lynne

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Re: Welcome to the Legacy Metadata eforum
« Reply #4 on: October 30, 2019, 10:10:25 am »
Morning!
Shannon Searle from Cranfield University. I work at the library as a Library Systems and Integration dev, which covers the Institutional Repositories and so, metadata is of interest in terms of discoverability and standards. Looking forward to learning more.

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« Reply #5 on: October 30, 2019, 10:10:52 am »
Hi,
I'm Sandy Forster, Information Resource Manager at Coventry University. We don't have any cataloguers/metadata specialists any more so I am doing my best to keep our metadata in reasonable shape, with no training beyond what I did at Library School many, many moons ago...

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Re: Welcome to the Legacy Metadata eforum
« Reply #6 on: October 30, 2019, 10:14:09 am »
Morning all,

Galen Jones - a Metadata Specialist at the Open University, worked previously as a Metadata Standards Officer at the National Library of Wales. Very familiar with legacy metadata and it's inconsistencies

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« Reply #7 on: October 30, 2019, 10:18:12 am »
Hello,

Richard from BCU - 'cataloguer' - if legacy metadata means old and useless then I'm familiar with it but less familiar with how to improve it.

Lynne D

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Re: Welcome to the Legacy Metadata eforum
« Reply #8 on: October 30, 2019, 10:37:30 am »
how to improve it.

When we moved to AACR2 (slightly before my time!) we made a conscious decision not to amend our records, so, for example, editors remained as 100s, even though in AACR2 editors became 700s. Are changes like this 'improvements'? I guess they are if the latest standards are created with the best possible of intentions, but since most (if not all) online catalogues and discovery systems search most (if not all) fields in a bib record, then the customer will find the resource they need, I guess.

As to how to identify such records, this seems a bit more tricky. Our management information system does all sorts of whizzy things, but is unable to interrogate at MARC field level. Well, actually, I suppose that's not quite true, but sometimes it's difficult to put a business case to our IT department about the importance of this when they have a million and one critical processes to deal with.

Often, we upgrade records as and when we come across them ...

Lynne