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Metadata and discovery

Abstract
What You Can Do to Help Promote Transparency in Discovery -- and Why
NISO recently updated the Open Discovery Initiative Recommended Practice (https://www.niso.org/publications/rp-19-2020-odi), which outlines best practices for working with library discovery services. It defines ways for libraries to assess the level of content provider participation; streamlines the process by which libraries, content providers and discovery service providers work together; defines models for “fair” linking; and suggests usage statistics that should be collected for libraries and for content providers. The recommendations in this document, created by members of the Open Discovery Initiative Standing Committee, enable libraries, discovery service providers, and content providers to work together to the full extent of their abilities—providing the most effective and rich experience to end users.

In this presentation, you will learn about the Open Discovery Initiative, what changes were included in the 2020 revision of the ODI Recommended Practice, and delve more deeply into several areas: free-to-read content, fair linking, and the key elements included in the newly added library conformance statements.

Better metadata makes a difference
Libraries create, ingest and use metadata for a variety of purposes and activities, including supporting end user discovery of resources and collections. In order to successfully facilitate resource discovery, librarians must ensure that the metadata in their systems and discovery layers is standardised, accurate and as complete as possible; otherwise, their collections can be rendered essentially invisible to the user.
 
In order to improve metadata visibility and quality, librarians need initial and continuing technical training. Dr Diane Pennington will discuss how she provides training in metadata, cataloguing, and library systems in the MSc Information & Library Studies course at the University of Strathclyde’s iSchool. She will also provide an overview of her students’ broad range of applied and theoretical metadata research in order to illustrate the need for critically-informed, evidence-based metadata practice and implementation.
 
You will then hear from Emma Booth about the National Acquisitions Group Quality of Shelf-Ready Metadata Project, which collected data from UK academic libraries about their experiences with vendor-produced metadata for books and e-books. This case study serves to illustrate how poor quality metadata has a genuinely negative impact upon libraries and their users. It also demonstrates that the development and adoption of standards related to metadata quality is in the interests of everyone involved in the supply and use of library content because all stakeholders in the supply chain stand to benefit from ‘better’ richer metadata that can effectively bridge the gaps between information and communities.


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NISO Plus 2021

Global

February 22-25, 2021


NISO Plus 2021 was our first virtual conference, held in February of 2021. A global undertaking, NISO Plus 2021 had over 800 participants from 26 countries come together to have a conversation about the state of the information ecosystem. Here you'll find both the presentations and discussions from that event.
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Diane Pennington

Senior Lecturer in Info Science & CILIP MDG Chair - University of Strathclyde


I am a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Information Science and the Course Director of the MSc in Information & Library Studies at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. I teach information organisation, library cataloguing, and library systems. As the leader of the Information Engagement research group within Strathclyde's iSchool, I supervise doctoral students and conduct research include metadata quality, semantic web/linked data implementation, tagging, and classifying user engagement on social media, with a particular focus on digital health and wellbeing. I serve on the joint ALA/CILIP/CFLA-FCAB CMSC Cataloging Ethics Steering Committee, and I am the Chair of CILIP's Metadata and Discovery Group.
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Emma Booth

E-Resources Metadata Specialist - University of Manchester


I'm a metadata specialist and cataloguer based in the UK. I'm passionate about the creation, curation and management of descriptive metadata for library resources, with the ultimate goal of supporting library-users with online discovery and access to collections. My day-to-day work involves creating and enriching metadata to ensure the discoverability of all electronic content acquired by and licensed to the University of Manchester, from books, journals, streaming videos and audio to Digital Archival Collections and online research databases.

I am an advocate for making high quality standardised metadata an intrinsic part of content acquisitions and procurement processes as it is crucial for supporting resource discovery, collection management and evidence-based collection development strategies.

Current member of the National Acquisitions Group Exec Committee, and the CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group Committee.
Author of the NAG Quality of Shelf-Ready Metadata Report.
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Geoff Morse

Interim Head of Research Services - Northwestern University Libraries

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Ken Varnum

Senior Program Manager - University of Michigan


I am the Senior Program Manager at the University of Michigan Library. In this role, I am responsible for three programs: Library Search, the U-M Library discovery interface, delivery interfaces, and the library's evolving and emerging analytics infrastructure.