= 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
* [wiki:MDQAS] - draft proposal of a Metadata Quality Assessment Service (deprecated by [[Curation Module]])
* [wiki:CmdiBestPracticeGuide#qualitycheck-list 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:
  * [https://github.com/DASISH/jmd-scripts/tree/master/workflow-scripts by DASISH]
  * [https://github.com/ekoi/cmd2rdf/blob/dev-refactoring/src/main/resources/xsl/addOrganisationEntity.xsl by the CMD2RDF team]  (includes Menzo)
* Analysis of the VLO proposed by ACDH (see [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rjNUqwr9KgUY4XLQiuvzpWIvb3zEIvza8PGvX93Bm8Y/edit# working gdoc])
* Accompanying [[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Cd53jzu9iXybF6cirFUyIGj7bO5up5m4toXUgKA0iM8/edit#slide=id.p3|presentation]]
* [[https://clarin.oeaw.ac.at/vlo|Developer/experimental instance of VLO at ACDH-OEAW "minerva"]]


== Meetings ==

* 2014-10-24: [[Meeting20141024|meeting in Soesterberg (CAC 2014)]]
* 2015-07-03: [[Taskforces/Curation/Meeting20150703|meeting in Vienna]]
* 2015-10-15: [[Taskforces/Curation/Meeting20151015|meeting in Wroclaw (CAC 2015)]]
* 2016-05-11: [[Taskforces/Curation/Meeting20160511|meeting in Utrecht (Centre Meeting)]]
* 2017-06-28: [[Taskforces/Curation/Meeting20170628|telco]]
* 2018-01-30: [[Taskforces/Curation/Meetings/2018-01-30|meeting in Vienna]]
* 2018-02-21: [[Taskforces/Curation/Meetings/2018-02-21|telco]]
* 2018-06-05: [[Taskforces/Curation/Meetings/2018-06-05|meeting in Utrecht (Centre Meeting)]]
* 2018-07-04: [[Taskforces/Curation/Meetings/2018-07-04|virtual]]
* 2018-12-06: [[Taskforces/Curation/Meetings/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