November 14, 2024
Join members of the Metadata & Discovery Group committee to find out why #MetadataMatters to all library and information professionals. The use of well-structured, consistent metadata enhances library workflows beyond traditional cataloguing. Effective metadata is crucial to ensure all resources that a library buys/acquires can be found, identified, selected and obtained by library-users. Ultimately, good metadata helps libraries to get value-for-money from their content budget expenditure. We will also showcase some tools and techniques for managing metadata.
Contributors:
Will Peaden is Chair of the Metadata & Discovery Group and works as Head of Content and Discovery at Coventry University. Will is keen to promote metadata and cataloguing to colleagues across the wider information profession.
Fran Frenzel works as Metadata Analyst in the Metadata Team at LSE Library. She is an advocate for the value of professional metadata work and high- quality metadata for content discovery and management, and open metadata.
Concetta La Spada works for Cambridge University Press where, as Senior Metadata Librarian, she uses her knowledge of cataloguing and metadata to improve the quality of the metadata supplied to customers and third parties.
Ceilan Hunter-Green is a Metadata & Discovery Manager at the University of Leeds Libraries where she leads on inclusive metadata work within the team.
Jenny Wright is the Chief Metadata Officer for BDS, a cataloguing agency based in the UK. Metadata, and the standards which we use to manage metadata creation and exchange, support all library functions.
Gail Beadnell works as Head of Resource Description at the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford where she manages a team of cataloguers who create, import and enrich bibliographic metadata for materials obtained through purchase, donation and Legal Deposit.
This was a joint webinar from NAG with CILIP’s Metadata and Discovery Group (MDG) for 2024 NAG Webinar Week.
Slides as PDF to follow!