= 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"
* [[Taskforces/Curation/ValueNormalization]] - discussion of the issue of value curation
* [wiki:MDQAS] - draft proposal of a Metadata Quality Assessment Service
* [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)

== Meetings ==

* 2014-10-24: [[Meeting20141024|meeting in Soesterberg (CAC 2014)]]

== Members ==

* Coordinator: Matej Ďurčo
* Volker Boehlke
* Uwe Reichel, Florian Schiel
* Axel Herold
* Neeme Kahusk
* Lene Offersgaard
* Hanna Hedeland 
* Kerstin Eckart / Jens Stegmann 
* Jozef Misutka / Pavel Straňák
* Sander Maijers
* Jussi Piitulainen