About
The CUL Metadata Working Group is an open forum for all staff to discuss and collaborate on metadata issues facing the library. The CUL Metadata Working Group Charge is:
- To exchange information about metadata and its application to all library functions; this exchange will include information about uses of metadata in CUL as well as information about broader metadata developments nationally and internationally.
- To provide an opportunity for feedback on the potential and the impact of intended developments or uses of metadata in CUL.
- To make recommendations on policy decisions relating to metadata that need to be made by CUL.
Learn more about Metadata Working Group's Steering Committee.
See some of the Metadata Working Group's outputs and resources on our Working Documents page.
Events (Upcoming and Recent Past)
Join MWG for:
Update from Linked Data for Production
July 17, 2019 - 3pm
Olin Library 106g
The "Linked Data for Production" (LD4P) team will give a series of short presentations on different aspects of the grant work, with time for discussion. LD4P is an Andrew W. Mellon funded project to identify pathways toward the implementation of linked data within a library environment: http://ld4p.org http://ld4p.org
Topics will include the Sinopia linked data catalog editor,…
Please join us for a 2 hour hands-on look at existing linked data sets.
We often discuss linked data as a silver bullet for our metadata strategies, but we stop short of linked data native implementations because adequate tools are not available, decisions about which model to use are highly political, etc. Ignoring orthodoxy, politics, and the all-or-nothing mindset,…
Is your New Year’s resolution to learn more about coding and scripting? If it is, or if you just declared it so right now, come to the first Code Club of 2019, tomorrow, Thursday, January 3, 2019 in Olin 701 from 12-1. We’ll work through the warm-ups and the exercises in Command Line Wizardry https://github.com/dd388/command-line-wizardry together. Bring yourself, your laptop, and your questions, and we’ll make it happen.
If you can’t make this one,…
Join us for two more events this fall!
On October 29th at 3pm in Olin 106, the MWG Steering Committee meeting will be open to all in order to brainstorm programming for the Spring. Please join us and bring your ideas for metadata-related programming. We're interested in developing programming that reaches out to all areas of the library, including discussions of how metadata affects the patron experience, how metadata connects our collections to the world,…
Thanks to Jason Kovari and Steven Folsom for presenting on the ARM BIBFRAME extension this fall! Their slides are now available in eCommons:
https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/59167 https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/59167
Find here a list of Metadata Working Group dates for the 2017-2018 year for planning purposes.
This year, we're keeping the approach we started last year. This means workshops, working sessions, and we hope, deliverables from the Metadata Working Group in this academic year. So many of these meetings will be used for workshops or working session style events.
We'll start the year with a lightening session of the tools people are using to work with their metadata across CUL.…
Looking for past Metadata Working Group Forums?
Bibliography (No Longer Updated)
Nostalgic? Browse the old Metadata Working Group site.