Joint F2F meeting Curation + CMDI Taskforce at the CAC 2015, 2015-10-15
- What?
- Metadata Curation / VLO issues and recommendations
- Who?
- Members of the Curation taskforce + anybody interested in better resource discovery
- When?
- 15 October 2015: 09.00 - 13.00 CET
- Where?
- Room Berlin at Sofitel, Wroclaw, PL
Agenda
Discussion of the analysis of the VLO proposed by ACDH (see working gdoc: design issues, facets, curation process (normalisation)
Discussion
Presentation of the findings from working document
Main findings (also see comments in the gdoc).
Design and Functionality:
- Planned alignment of the overall style between main CLARIN.EU website, VLO and http://weblicht.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/Aggregator/ towards an up to date design (minimal, more contrast) along the lines of the current FCS-Aggregator development
- multi-linguality would be nice, but requires lot of effort -> low priority
- Availability and licensing information should be more present
Facets:
- there are competing requirements: more facets / less facets
- how to deal with "problematic" facets (keyword, subject, genre, ...) - incoherent set of too many different values; however the lists tend to become consistent, when "zooming in" to individual collections
-> consider them as "conditional" facets
- how to deal with "problematic" facets (keyword, subject, genre, ...) - incoherent set of too many different values; however the lists tend to become consistent, when "zooming in" to individual collections
- in general move away from the idea of one static set of facets, towards a more dynamic setup with possibly many indices in the system (solr), deciding only later (even leave it partly up to the user) which facets should be displayed. Basically we could think of three types of facets:
- default minimal set of facets (~ 8)
- conditional facets to be displayed under certain constraints (by resource type, or if collection
- debugging/curation/administrative facets/informations to be shown on demand
- when defining recommendations for CMD, don't overspecialize on VLO, consider also other use cases, especially citability (which requires Author/Contributor)
- objections to the propositions to broaden the definitions of facets (Time coverage, Country, Language)
"Would be the situation where we actually come from"
- Introduce time coverage (see Definition of TimeCoverage from VLO-Taskforce )
- requires analysis of the existing data
- selection of appropriate format (see ETDF, ODRF )
- discuss definition of "coverage"
VLO taskforce proposes: "... time when original texts were written or speech recordings made";
DCMI defines coverage as "The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant."
i.e. do we express creation time or the "about time" of the resources - How to deal with born digital material wrt creation time?
- Resource Type
- need to finalize the proposed controlled vocabularies ( VLO-taskforce ResourceType )
- normalisation on-going
- is related to but not to be merged/mixed with the
ResourceRef
media type (currently rendered as:text, application, audio, other
?? ) - make the facet more prominent:
- could be even rendered on the start page as main entry point
- represent as (consistent) icon-set
- adapt display (visible facet) by resource type (conditional facets)
- Availability/License
- check back with legal committee
- consider edm:rights (see Europeana Licensing Framework, Available Rights Statements)
- ensure alignment with the categorisation defined by Legal Comittee (see License Category Calculator)
- license (class) should be indicated more clearly, e.g. by means icons in the search results
Other:
- Guidelines should be accompanied by tools -> curation dashboard is planned
- when designing VLO, consider how e-shops solve the issue of custom/dynamic facets/dimensions
- ranking: push popular/big resources
some ranking is happening -> planning to add explicitsort functionality - ACDH has set up own instance of VLO for developing / experimenting with new features
Documents
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Abstract of paper by King and Durco concentrating on the variability of values in the VLO-facets
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