Hi all-
We are happy to announce our Metadata Working Group schedule for this January-May 2017. Please save the dates on your calendars and plan to take part if able! If you see a working session or workshop you would also like to help facilitate, email Christina or Marcie.
Note that these sessions reflect the shift of the Metadata Working Group this year towards working sessions and workshops instead of a series of external speakers. We hope to build a network of expertise and resources for supporting metadata work broadly in the Cornell University Library system.
Best,
Metadata Working Group Steering Committee
Proposed Outcomes for Participants:
Proposed Outcomes for Participants:
Understand metrics by which to measure or assess metadata (completeness, quality, usage/frequency, ...)
Understand basic structure of Python scripts available for measuring metadata from various repositories and stores at Cornell
Understand how to use OpenRefine to assess state of datasets with particular preference for assessing metadata
facets
GREL lookups
completeness percentage / generation
Other Metadata QA metrics as defined/requested
Does it happen to you that when you tell your non-library friends you work with metadata, they leap to their understanding of what they’ve heard about metadata collected by institutions such as the NSA? (It happens to me) For our MWG April Session, we’re going to go ahead and explore that possible connection by having an informal presentation (given by someone who is admittedly not a Tor expert, just an enthusiast) and discussion on Internet Privacy and the Tor technology suite. We welcome anyone with an interest in the subject and any technical background. This will replace our originally scheduled April 21st workshop, which we can no longer hold this spring.