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Item Metadata Guidelines for Subject Specialists and Curators Workshop Slides(2019-09-24) Ho, Jeannette; Stokes, Charity KayPresentation introducing metadata guidelines for subject librarians and curators at Texas A&M University Libraries.Item Metadata Guidelines for Digital Resources at Texas A&M University Libraries(2019-05-16) Ho, Jeannette; Stokes, Charity KayThese guidelines were written to help TAMU partners create high quality metadata for digital collections deposited in the repository at TAMU Libraries. The goal is to ensure an acceptable level of consistency and completeness of metadata across all collections in the repository in order maximize their potential for discovery for the TAMU community. These guidelines were also written to help Digital Initiatives personnel at TAMU Libraries to map metadata to appropriate fields in Dublin Core and MODS, the two most commonly used schema within the TAMU repository. The guidelines, as they are currently written, address metadata elements that may be recorded for ALL digital collections within the repository, regardless of whether they consist of text, still images, video, or any other type of content. It is likely that specific formats may require additional metadata than what is currently described in this document. More specific guidelines for various formats may be added to this document in the future. It should be noted that this document is a work in progress and will continue to be revised and expanded upon.Item Report from the Metadata Task Group to the DAMEid(2018-05-31) Stokes, Charity Kay; Ho, JeannetteIn December 2017, the Repository and Metadata team were given a two part charge. 1. Reviewing the Charge which includes • Putting schemas, standards and workflows into place in order to ensure interoperability and functionality across the systems of the DAME. • Consult with relevant stakeholders in the DAME, including: including curators, the Digital Archivist and Digital Preservation Librarian, copyright experts, Digital Initiatives, the Office of Scholarly Communication, and the DAME’s Interfaces & Discovery group • Focus primarily on metadata implementation with the DAME’s Repository stems 2. Recommending metadata schema for Fedora and DSpace • Do an environmental scan that examines how other institutions have approached Fedora and DSpace • Gather information concerning how metadata is stored and expressed in DSpace/Fedora. • Make recommendations for moving between these systems and achieving interoperability • Recommendations for schema, including preferred usage of controlled vocabularies • Recommendations for approaching metadata (i.e. templates, collection level or format) • Recommendations for assigning materials to either DSpace of Fedora • Minimal Metadata requirements • Recommendations for metadata creation workflow