2017-03-24, With the increasing number of repositories, standards and resources we manage for digital libraries, there is a growing need to assess, validate and analyze our metadata - beyond our traditional approaches such as writing XSD or generating CSVs for manual review. Being able to further analyze and determine measures of metadata quality helps us better manage our data and data-driven development, particularly with the shift to Linked Open Data leading many institutions to large-scale migrations. Yet, the semantically-rich metadata desired by many Cultural Heritage Institutions, and the granular expectations of some of our data models, makes performing assessment, much less going on to determine quality or performing validation, that much trickier. How do we handle analysis of the rich understandings we have built into our Cultural Heritage Institutions’ metadata and enable ourselves to perform this analysis with the systems and resources we have?

This webinar with Christina Harlow, Cornell University Library, sets up this question and proposes some guidelines, best practices, tools and workflows around the evaluation of metadata used by and for digital libraries and Cultural Heritage Institution repositories. The goal is for webinar participants to walk away prepared to handle their own metadata assessment needs by using existing works and being better aware of the open questions in this domain. For additional information and to register, go to http://dublincore.org/resources/training/#2017harlow.

2017-03-24, The Governing Board and the Chairs of the DC-2017 Program Committee are please to announce that Sayeed Choudhury, Associate Dean for Research Data Management and Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center at the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University will deliver the keynote address at DC-2017 in Washington, D.C. Choudhury has oversight for data curation research and development and data archive implementation at the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University. Choudhury is a President Obama appointee to the National Museum and Library Services Board. He is a member of the Executive Committee for the Institute of Data Intensive Engineering and Science (IDIES) based at Johns Hopkins. He is also a member of the Board of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and a member of the Advisory Board for OpenAIRE2020. He has been a member of the National Academies Board on Research Data and Information, the ICPSR Council, the DuraSpace Board, Digital Library Federation advisory committee, Library of Congress' National Digital Stewardship Alliance Coordinating Committee, Federation of Earth Scientists Information Partnership (ESIP) Executive Committee and the Project MUSE Advisory Board. He is the recipient of the 2012 OCLC/LITA Kilgour Award. Choudhury has testified for the U.S. Research Subcommittee of the Congressional Committee on Science, Space and Technology. For additional information, see http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/keynote17.

2017-03-24, ZBW German National Library of Economics - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics is the world's largest research infrastructure for economic literature, online as well as offline. Its disciplinary repository EconStor provides a large collection of more than 127,000 articles and working papers in Open Access. EconBiz, the portal for international economic information, allows students and researchers to search among nine million datasets. The ZBW edits two journals in economic policy, Wirtschaftsdienst and Intereconomics, and in cooperation with the Kiel Institute for the World Economy produces the peer-reviewed journal Economics based on the principle of Open Access. For information on becoming a DCMI Institutional Member, visit the DCMI membership page at http://dublincore.org/support/.