[metadataLibrarians] Newbie question about metadatalibrarianskills and training

[Diane I. Hillmann]

Bill:

You are absolutely correct about this, and it's an area where savvy 
metadata librarians with solid backgrounds in cataloging and 
authority work will really come into their own.

As a matter of fact, I'm in the midst of writing a grant proposal to 
build a back-end beast for a couple of digital libraries, based on 
what we learned creating one for NSDL.  This one will be generalized 
and distributable, for those who might be interested ... ;-)

Diane

>Just wanted to weigh in briefly regarding James' and Kay's thread 
>about authorized forms (I'd scope
>that broadly to include names and other controlled vocabularies). 
>Regardless of what "they" want and
>how "they" search, in the digital library world it seems evident to 
>me that our work will
>increasingly include back-end metadata transformations that 
>enhance/enrich/remediate existing
>metadata in order to make it play well in specific 
>resources/interfaces. I agree with much of what's
>been said on this topic thus far, but I just want to put in a plug 
>for thinking about the
>metadata-related work in digital library settings that will 
>increasingly happen in behind-the-scenes
>transformations that the end user will likely never see, but that 
>will benefit them in their use of
>specific resources or systems. Yep, google works well for all of us 
>in certain situations.
>Nonetheless, all of the assessment work that we've done at the 
>California Digital Library with our
>core academic (primary, seconday, college/univ.) community indicates 
>quite clearly that students and
>teachers are quite aware that google isn't the most useful tool for 
>every purpose when it comes to
>finding information.
>
>Bill
>
>Bill Landis
>Metadata Coordinator
>California Digital Library
>University of California Office of the President
>415 20th Street, 4th floor
>Oakland, CA  94612-2901
>(510) 987-0809
>bill.landis at ucop.edu
>
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