Metadata Curation taskforce

Goals (non-exhaustive)

Primary concern of this taskforce is the quality of the CMD records (i.e. instances), especially wrt to their purpose of resource discovery. However the quality of the schemas/profiles obviously plays a role.

Towards this goal, next to regularly manually checking the harvested metadata (in the VLO) and analyzing problems, work is planned on automatic checks of the md records (working towards a Metadata Quality Assessement Service) and curation of the values in selected facets/fields/data categories (e.g. organization name).

Public website

(none)

Documents and wiki pages

• MDCuration - general notes on the issue
• report for tracking curation issues {18}
• #676 - a ticket to "Create a metadata curation module"
• Proposal/Specification for the Curation Module
• #688 - implementation of metadata curation inside the VLO importer (-> to be deprecated in favor of #676)
• Taskforces/Curation/ValueNormalization - discussion of the issue of value curation
• MDQAS - draft proposal of a Metadata Quality Assessment Service (deprecated by Curation Module)
• CMDI Best practice document including quality indications
• Some valuable suggestions from Data Cite on the semantics of publication date: ​http://www.datacite.org/node/130
• existing curation approaches:
  • ​by DASISH
  • ​by the CMD2RDF team (includes Menzo)
• Analysis of the VLO proposed by ACDH (see ​working gdoc)
• Accompanying ​presentation
• ​Developer/experimental instance of VLO at ACDH-OEAW "minerva"

Meetings

• 2014-10-24: meeting in Soesterberg (CAC 2014)
• 2015-07-03: meeting in Vienna
• 2015-10-15: meeting in Wroclaw (CAC 2015)
• 2016-05-11: meeting in Utrecht (Centre Meeting)
• 2017-06-28: telco
• 2018-01-30: meeting in Vienna
• 2018-02-21: telco
• 2018-06-05: meeting in Utrecht (Centre Meeting)
• 2018-07-04: virtual
• 2018-12-06: meeting and hands-on curation session in Vienna

Members

• Coordinator: Matej Ďurčo
• Uwe Reichel, Florian Schiel
• Axel Herold
• Neeme Kahusk
• Lene Offersgaard
• Hanna Hedeland
• Kerstin Eckart / Jens Stegmann
• Jozef Misutka / Pavel Straňák
• Jussi Piitulainen
• Susanne Haaf
• Alexander König