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What is the best way to ensure accurate metadata for digital collections?

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Metadata is the information that describes, identifies, and organizes digital collections, such as images, audio, video, text, or data. Metadata helps users find, access, and use digital resources effectively and efficiently. However, creating and maintaining accurate metadata for digital collections can be challenging, especially when dealing with large, diverse, or complex collections. In this article, you will learn some best practices and tips to ensure accurate metadata for your digital collections.

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1 Define your metadata standards and schema

Before you start creating metadata for your digital collections, you need to define the standards and schema that you will follow. Standards are the rules and guidelines that specify how metadata should be structured, formatted, and encoded. Schema are the sets of elements and attributes that define what metadata fields are available and how they are used. Choosing appropriate standards and schema for your digital collections will help you ensure consistency, interoperability, and quality of your metadata. Some examples of common metadata standards and schema are Dublin Core, MODS, METS, EAD, and PREMIS.

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It's mandatory to have a fixed scheme of conversion in tags, with a systematic approach to concatenate or resume terms. It needs to be both clear reading, giving a good hint of the content and without ambiguity. In high volumes this is very difficult to achieve and need to be well planned and developed.

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2 Use controlled vocabularies and authority files

Another way to ensure accurate metadata for your digital collections is to use controlled vocabularies and authority files. Controlled vocabularies are lists of standardized terms or phrases that are used to describe specific concepts or topics. Authority files are records that provide authoritative information about a person, organization, place, or subject. Using controlled vocabularies and authority files will help you avoid ambiguity, inconsistency, and duplication of terms in your metadata. Some examples of controlled vocabularies and authority files are Library of Congress Subject Headings, Thesaurus of Geographic Names, Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus, and VIAF.

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3 Implement quality control measures

Even if you follow the best metadata standards and schema, and use controlled vocabularies and authority files, you still need to implement quality control measures to ensure accurate metadata for your digital collections. Quality control measures are the processes and tools that help you check, validate, and correct your metadata. Quality control measures can include manual or automated methods, such as peer review, spell check, data validation, error reports, or metadata editing tools. Quality control measures will help you identify and fix any errors, gaps, or inconsistencies in your metadata.

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4 Document your metadata policies and procedures

One more way to ensure accurate metadata for your digital collections is to document your metadata policies and procedures. Metadata policies and procedures are the documents that describe the goals, principles, and practices of your metadata creation and management. Metadata policies and procedures can include information such as the scope, purpose, and audience of your digital collections, the metadata standards and schema that you use, the controlled vocabularies and authority files that you apply, the quality control measures that you implement, and the roles and responsibilities of your metadata staff. Documenting your metadata policies and procedures will help you communicate and maintain your metadata standards and practices.

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5 Update and enrich your metadata regularly

Finally, to ensure accurate metadata for your digital collections, you need to update and enrich your metadata regularly. Updating and enriching your metadata means adding, modifying, or deleting metadata fields or values to reflect changes in your digital resources, user needs, or metadata environment. Updating and enriching your metadata can help you improve the discoverability, accessibility, and usability of your digital collections. Some examples of updating and enriching your metadata are adding new keywords, linking to related resources, or enhancing the description or context of your digital resources.

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6 Here’s what else to consider

This is a space to share examples, stories, or insights that don’t fit into any of the previous sections. What else would you like to add?

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Meredith Eliassen

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The word “best” caught me in this article: there is no “best” in this area because ALL elements work together for the BEST results. Digitizing collections to become part of a more universal collection of human creative and intellectual output requires the precise shared language of metadata in all of its facets… it is all good.

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