Publication Date
10-27-2017
Document Type
Poster
Start Date
27-10-2017 3:45 PM
End Date
27-10-2017 5:00 PM
Description
Libraries face many challenges in managing descriptive metadata for ebooks, including quality control, completeness of coverage, and ongoing management. The recent emergence of library management systems that automatically provide descriptive metadata for e-resources activated in system knowledge bases means that ebook management models are moving toward both greater efficiency and more complex implementation and maintenance choices. Automated and data-driven processes for ebook management have always been desirable, but in the current environment, they are necessary. In addition to initial selection of a record source, automation can be applied to quality control processes and ongoing maintenance in order to keep manual, eyes-on-work to a minimum while providing the best possible discovery and access. This poster shows how metadata analysis at the University of Minnesota Libraries use Python scripts to address these challenges.
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Recommended Citation
Traill, S., & Thompson, K. (2017, October 26-29). Evaluating and loading ebook metadata from OCLC Worldshare Collection Manager [Poster presentation]. 2017 OLAC Conference, Richmond, VA, United States. https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/olac-conference/2017/presentations/1
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Evaluating and Loading Ebook Metadata from OCLC WorldShare Collection Manager
Libraries face many challenges in managing descriptive metadata for ebooks, including quality control, completeness of coverage, and ongoing management. The recent emergence of library management systems that automatically provide descriptive metadata for e-resources activated in system knowledge bases means that ebook management models are moving toward both greater efficiency and more complex implementation and maintenance choices. Automated and data-driven processes for ebook management have always been desirable, but in the current environment, they are necessary. In addition to initial selection of a record source, automation can be applied to quality control processes and ongoing maintenance in order to keep manual, eyes-on-work to a minimum while providing the best possible discovery and access. This poster shows how metadata analysis at the University of Minnesota Libraries use Python scripts to address these challenges.