The group met 2-3 times this quarter.
Recent Activities
First Activity
Action plan discussion and brainstorming for 2018-2019. The 2017-2018 committee partially completed a project related to diversity and inclusion and metadata standards organizations. The 2018-2019 committee reviewed comments from the committee's presentation at the 2018 ALA Annual Conference to determine next steps and potential themes for the 2018-2019 work of the committee.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Advocacy and Information Policy, Education and Professional Development
Second Activity
Impact and Assessment for Fields in Metadata Standards – Based on some of the feedback from the 2018 ALA Conference committee meeting and presentation, the committee is currently in engaged in information gathering around assessment of fields/elements in metadata standards. The goal is to develop a "Metadata Assessment Framework" that could be used in conjunction to the previously published "Principles for Evaluating Metadata Standards".
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Advocacy and Information Policy, Education and Professional Development
What will your group be working on for the next three months?
Complete literature review for "Metadata Assessment Framework". Identify core questions that the framework should answer (e.g. "Are the fields used in metadata standards effective for their purpose?", "What stakeholders benefit from each metadata field?", "Can the level of benefit be quantified or articulated in a meaningful way?", etc.).
Please provide suggestions for future education topics, initiatives, publications, resources, or other activities that could be developed based on your group’s work.
We're hoping the framework will be valuable to a variety of constituents involved in metadata work and could be presented in a workshop, conference presentation, or publication.
Submitted by Michael Bolam on 10/22/2018
