Establish a Baseline Understanding of Metadata Practices Project
RLG surveyed a subset of the RLG partnership in July and August 2007 to obtain a baseline understanding of their current metadata practices. Eighteen RLG Programs partners were selected because they had multiple "metadata creation centers" within a single campus, including libraries, archives, and museums. The 89 responses received are indicative of different metadata practices.
The November 2007 report of the survey results summarizes the descriptive practices used across a variety of applications, data structure and data content standards followed, the audiences for the metadata created, and some organizational patterns. Our analysis raised questions that warrant follow-up. The narrative interprets the results and identifies opportunities to simplify and integrate metadata practices as we seek to reduce their costs.
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