You are invited to participate in the DLF Assessment Interest Group’s (DLF AIG) working group on metadata in 2025.
This group is open to anyone who is interested in taking part. There are no minimum or membership requirements, though we hope you’ll take as active a part as you’re able and willing.
The Metadata Assessment Working Group aims to build guidelines, best practices, tools and workflows around the evaluation and assessment of metadata used by and for digital libraries and repositories. The group hopes to offer deliverables and recommendations that digital library and repository users can implement for metadata assessment and metadata quality control.
This group should not focus on prescriptive recommendations for metadata (using one schema versus another, or comparisons of controlled vocabularies, etc.), but rather how (both functionally and to what metrics) to measure, evaluate and assess the metadata as it exists in a variety of digital library systems. Future work could lend itself to then using that assessment work to decide a pathway for metadata enhancement.
Get Involved
- The Metadata Working Group will primarily communicate through the DLF AIG Metadata Working Group Google Group.
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- The majority of the work for 2016 was done in a Google Drive folder, which as been moved to a shared drive (accessible to members of the Google Group).
- Joining the Google Group also gives you access to shared documents and meeting minutes, if you want to stay up-to-date but cannot attend all of the meetings
- You can also join the Assessment Interest Group Slack workspace. There is a channel for the Metadata Interest Group where you can post any questions you may have.
- Additionally, we have a significant portion of our work in our public-facing GitHub website.
Metadata Working Group Meetings
We have working meetings every 2-4 weeks from January or February through DLF Forum in November. The meetings will take place on Thursdays at 1:15 PM Eastern/10:15 AM Pacific. Agendas contain connection information and the plan for the meeting; they are available in the Google Group Drive and are sent to the Google Group beforehand. (Please join the Google Group if you want to join a meeting.)
Upcoming Meeting Schedule
All meetings are held at 1:15 pm – 2:00 pm Eastern / 12:15 pm – 1 pm Central / 11:15 am – 12 pm Mountain / 10:15 am – 11 am Pacific
Tentative meeting dates for 2025
- February 27, 2025
- March 27, 2025
- April 24, 2025
- May 22, 2025
- June 19, 2025
- July 17, 2025
- August 14, 2025
- September 11, 2025
- October 9, 2025
- November 6, 2025
- December 4, 2025
For questions about the larger DLF Assessment Interest Group, contact the DLF AIG leader, Kate Flynn kef@uic.edu