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Item A Case Study of ETD Metadata Remediation at the University of Houston Libraries(2019-01-11) Thompson, Santi; Liu, Xiping; Duran, Albert; Washington, AnneThis paper provides a case study on remediating electronic theses and dissertations (ETD) metadata at the University of Houston Libraries. The authors provide an overview of the team’s efforts to revise existing ETD metadata in its institutional repository as part of their commitment to aligning ETD records with the Texas Digital Library Descriptive Metadata Guidelines for Electronic Theses and Dissertations, Version 2.0 (TDL guidelines, version 2). The paper reviews the existing literature on metadata quality and ETD metadata practices, noting how their case study adds one of the first documented cases of ETD metadata remediation. The metadata upgrade process is described, with close attention to the tools and workflows developed to complete the remediation. The authors conclude the paper with a discussion of lessons learned, the project’s limitations, future plans, and the emerging needs of metadata remediation work.Item Cleaning up legacy metadata for ETDs: Strategies, tools and a look into the future [Poster](2016-09-27) Liu, Xiping; Duran, Albert; Washington, AnneSince July 2015, the University of Houston (UH) Libraries Metadata and Digitization Services (MDS) Metadata Unit in collaboration with the UH Libraries Digital Repository Services (DRS) department has been working towards the goal of improving the quality of legacy Electronic Theses and Dissertation (ETD) metadata in the UH Institutional Repository. In addition to standardizing the metadata for internal purposes, this effort, known as the ETD Metadata Upgrade Project, will align UH ETD metadata with the newest Dictionary of Texas Digital Library Descriptive Metadata for Electronic Theses and Dissertations . The Texas Digital Library (TDL) is a consortium of higher education institutions in Texas that provides shared services in support of research, teaching, and the advancement of scholarship. It facilitates collaboration among the TDL community and with external partners. By bringing the University of Houston’s ETD metadata into compliance with TDL guidelines, the connection to other TDL member institutions is strengthened and the Libraries are better positioned to take advantage of ETD system developments. This poster presentation will describe the background of this project, the procedures that have been developed, the tools used in the work, and plans for future work. Poster presenters will share how they wrangled and revised legacy ETD metadata exported from the Libraries’ TDL-hosted DSpace and Vireo instances using Microsoft Access and Open Refine. They will detail how they addressed challenges presented by particular fields such as standardizing advisor, committee member, department, and degree discipline names and how they intend to reimport the cleaned data into DSpace. The team will also share strategies for project communication, documentation, and task management using Basecamp and PmWiki. Finally, presenters will share goals of further streamlining and automating ongoing metadata remediation, deploying a local RDF vocabulary management system to aid in name and department standardization, and exploring the publication of ETD metadata as linked data. Overall, these strategies and tools have improved the ETD metadata quality and workflows, strengthened the communication and collaboration between the DRS department and the MDS Metadata Unit, and given insight into opportunities for future development. This poster will be useful for library and information professionals that have similar ETD goals. Viewers of this poster will come away with techniques to address ETD metadata maintenance needs for their digital repositories.Item Cleaning up legacy metadata for ETDs: Strategies, tools and a look into the future [Presentation](2016-09-27) Liu, Xiping; Duran, Albert; Washington, AnneSince July 2015, the University of Houston (UH) Libraries Metadata and Digitization Services (MDS) Metadata Unit in collaboration with the UH Libraries Digital Repository Services (DRS) department has been working towards the goal of improving the quality of legacy Electronic Theses and Dissertation (ETD) metadata in the UH Institutional Repository. In addition to standardizing the metadata for internal purposes, this effort, known as the ETD Metadata Upgrade Project, will align UH ETD metadata with the newest Dictionary of Texas Digital Library Descriptive Metadata for Electronic Theses and Dissertations. The Texas Digital Library (TDL) is a consortium of higher education institutions in Texas that provides shared services in support of research, teaching, and the advancement of scholarship. It facilitates collaboration among the TDL community and with external partners. By bringing the University of Houston’s ETD metadata into compliance with TDL guidelines, the connection to other TDL member institutions is strengthened and the Libraries are better positioned to take advantage of ETD system developments. This presentation will describe the background of this project, the procedures that have been developed, the tools used in the work, and plans for future work. Presenters will share how they wrangled and revised legacy ETD metadata exported from the Libraries’ TDL-hosted DSpace and Vireo instances using Microsoft Access and Open Refine. They will detail how they addressed challenges presented by particular fields - such as standardizing advisor, committee member, department, and degree discipline names - and how they intend to re-import the cleaned data into DSpace. The team will also share strategies for project communication, documentation, and task management using Basecamp and PmWiki. Finally, presenters will share goals of further streamlining and automating ongoing metadata remediation, deploying a local RDF vocabulary management system to aid in name and department standardization, and exploring the publication of ETD metadata as linked data. Overall, these strategies and tools have improved the ETD metadata quality and workflows, strengthened the communication and collaboration between the DRS department and the MDS Metadata Unit, and given insight into opportunities for future development. This presentation will be useful for libraries and information centers that have similar ETD goals. Session attendees will come away with techniques to address ETD metadata maintenance needs for their digital repositories.Item Metadata Maintenance Strategies(2015-04-14) Duran, Albert; Weidner, AndrewSince 2013 the University of Houston (UH) Libraries Metadata and Digitization Services (MDS) department has been working towards the goal of improving the quality of legacy metadata in the UH Digital Library. This effort, known as the Metadata Upgrade Project, required the adoption and development of tools to coordinate staff and improve efficiency. This poster describes the tools that support MDS’s metadata upgrade work in three strategic areas: Documentation, Communication, and Automation. First, we use a departmental wiki, powered by PmWiki, to document our workflow processes. Second, for communication we use Basecamp and Google Forms. Basecamp is useful for project management and communication with MDS members and important stakeholders. Tasks are assigned, discussed, monitored and marked as complete with this tool. We also implemented a Google Form that collection curators can use to easily report metadata problems. Third, AutoHotkey is used to automate complicated and repetitive tasks, thereby increasing productivity and decreasing errors during metadata creation and editing. Overall, these tools have improved the cohesion and effectiveness of the MDS Metadata Unit in the areas of accuracy, quality and production. This poster will be useful for libraries and information centers that have similar metadata maintenance goals for their digital collections.