How to "free your metadata" by improving its quality via Google Refine. Source of exercises?

Points out why a lot of metadata standards for data are kinda obtuse.

CC tries to explain why licensing metadata is a freakin' minefield.

MPLP cataloging of examinations, using tech shortcuts to save time and ensuring that only the most useful metadata is captured.

Example of authority control on messy data.

Migration from one application to another is extremely time consuming because you are: mapping from one set of entity types to another. Entities are the types of objects the application can hold (users/groups/documents/records/files/libraries/sites/retention rules etc) mapping from one set of descriptive metadata fields to another mapping from one set of functions to another. Functions are the actions that users can be permitted to perform on entities in the system (for example: create an entity/amend it/rename it/move it/copy it/delete it/attach a retention rule to it/grant or deny access permissions on it) mapping from one set of roles to another. Roles are simply collections of functions, grouped together to make it easier to administrate them. For example in SharePoint the role of ‘member’ of a site collects together the functions a user needs to be able to access a site and view and download content, and to contribute new content to the site, but denies them the functions they would need to administer or change the site itself.

What's hard-to-parse about current-gen metadata, and how we can and can't make it better algorithmically. Not sure how I missed this one; it's fabulous.

Supposedly a MODS profile for research data coming soon.

Accepted for publication in Cataloging and Classification Quarterly.

Without decent metadata, iBooks is even more annoying than the App Store

Sad lack of actual documentation. Pity.

Includes PREMIS in METS validator, guidelines.