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This highly practical handbook teaches you how to unlock the value of your existing metadata through cleaning, reconciliation, enrichment and linking and how to streamline the process of new metadata creation. Libraries, archives and museums are facing up to the challenge of providing access to fast growing collections whilst managing cuts to budgets. Key to this is the creation, linking and publishing of good quality metadata as Linked Data that will allow their collections to be discovered, accessed and disseminated in a sustainable manner. This highly practical handbook teaches you how to unlock the value of your existing metadata through cleaning, reconciliation, enrichment and linking and how to streamline the process of new metadata creation. Metadata experts Seth van Hooland and Ruben Verborgh introduce the key concepts of metadata standards and Linked Data and how they can be practically applied to existing metadata, giving readers the tools and understanding to achieve maximum results with limited resources. Readers will learn how to critically assess and use (semi-)automated methods of managing metadata through hands-on exercises within the book and on the accompanying website. Each chapter is built around a case study from institutions around the world, demonstrating how freely available tools are being successfully used in different metadata contexts. This handbook delivers the necessary conceptual and practical understanding to empower practitioners to make the right decisions when making their organisations resources accessible on the Web. Key topics include, the value of metadata; metadata creation - architecture, data models and standards; metadata cleaning; metadata reconciliation; metadata enrichment through Linked Data and named-entity recognition; importing and exporting metadata; ensuring a sustainable publishing model. This will be an invaluable guide for metadata practitioners and researchers within all cultural heritage contexts, from library cataloguers and archivists to museum curatorial staff. It will also be of interest to students and academics within information science and digital humanities fields. IT managers with responsibility for information systems, as well as strategy heads and budget holders, at cultural heritage organisations, will find this a valuable decision-making aid.
Contents
Foreword - Sebastian Chan
1. Introduction
Metadata at the crossroads
Definition and scope of key concepts
Position and originality of the handbook
Structure and learning objectives
Get in touch!
Note
References
2. Modelling
Introduction
Tabular data
Relational model
Meta-markup languages
Linked data
Conclusion
Case study: linked data at your fingertips
Notes
References
3. Cleaning
Introduction
A new field of data quality
Data profiling
Conclusion
Case study: Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts
Notes
Bibliography
4. Reconciling
Introduction
Controlled vocabularies
Semantics and machines
Bringing controlled vocabularies to the web
Enabling interconnections
Conclusion
Case study: Powerhouse Museum
Notes
References
5. Enriching
Introduction
The potential of crowdsourcing
Embracing scale
Gold mining for semantics
Managing ambiguous uRLs
Conclusion
Case study: the british Library
Notes
References
6. Publishing
Introduction
Identifying content with URLs
Marking up content
A web for humans and machines
Conclusion
Case study: Cooper-hewitt National Design Museum
Notes
References
7. Conclusions
Statistics, probability and the humanities
Market forces
Use of URLs
Engage
Note
References
