It’s a crisis that has left, by some estimations, billions on the table unpaid to musicians

News articles about the National Digital Newspaper Program

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current (2018 January 17) thinking on technical debt in metadata management · GitHub

This paper explores the origins of the Dublin Core 1:1 Principle within DCMI documentation.  It finds that the need for the 1:1 Principle emerged from prior work within the cultural heritage community responsible for describing reproductions and surrogate resources within traditional cataloging environments. As the solutions to these problems encountered new ways to model semantic data, tensions arose within DCMI community. This paper aims to fill the gaps in our understanding of the 1:1 Principle by outlining the conceptual foundations that led to its inclusion in DCMI documentation, how the Principle has been (mis)understood in practice, how violations of the Principle have been operationalized, and how the fundamental issues raised by the Principle continue to challenge us today. This discussion situates the 1:1 Principle within larger discussions about cataloging practice and semantic knowledge representations.

We all know that writing and publishing is of great concern to those whose work is in academia; the "publish or perish" burden haunts pre-te...

Dates appear regularly in research data and metadata but are a problematic data type to normalize due to a variety of potential formats. This suggests an opportunity for data librarians to assist with formatting dates, yet there are frequent examples of data librarians using diverse strategies for this purpose. Instead, data librarians should adopt the international date standard ISO 8601. This standard provides needed consistency in date formatting, allows for inclusion of several types of date-time information, and can sort dates chronologically. As regular advocates for standardization in research data, data librarians must adopt ISO 8601 and push for its use as a data management best practice.

By Sandy Lynn Ortiz This is the fifth post in the bloggERS Script It! Series. Recently, I taught myself BASH scripting to automate a process for Stanford University Libraries Born Digital Labs. As …

Lose Your Illusion Unmasking the Deceptions of Metadata Design for Everyone Shawn Averkamp, NYPL Collections as Data Forum 2 May 7-8, 2018 UNLV http://bit.ly/AsDataIllusions Hi everyone, I’m a metadata librarian. Day to day, I manage large amounts of digital collections data for one of the larges...

Good example of description for digital materials inside a finding aid.

In the spring of 2017, members of the CaMMS Recruitment & Mentoring Committee solicited volunteers on various email lists who were willing to share information about their positions on the ALCT…

An overview of the tagging process at The New York Times. The Times uses a software tool for rules-based categorization to assign metadata to content. This is followed by human supervised review and tagging.

In this guest post David Haynes explores the ethics of metadata gathering and use by security services and social media giants.

Putting born-digital stuff, including disk images, into finding aids.

As publishers increasingly use Content Distribution Networks (CDNs) to distribute content across geographically diverse networks, CDNs themselves are becoming unwitting targets of requests for...

In real life, in the natural course of conversation, it is not uncommon to talk about a person you may know. You meet someone and say, “I’m from Sarasota,” and they say, “Oh, I have a grandparent in Sarasota,” and they tell you where they live and their name, and you may or may not recognize them.

This animation showcases the "Inside Hacking Team" investigation by the SHARE Foundation. The project analysed the metadata of the leaked emails of Hacking Team, a surveillance vendor. This resource illustrates the power of metadata.

This animation was produced by Tactical Technology Collective and Klaas Diersmann.
More information can be found:
https://labs.rs/en/metadata/
https://myshadow.org/resources/inside-hacking-team?locale=en