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Metadata Remediation Of Legacy Digital Collections: Efficient Large-Scale Metadata Clean-Up With A Sleek Workflow And A Handy Tool, Marina Georgieva
Metadata Remediation Of Legacy Digital Collections: Efficient Large-Scale Metadata Clean-Up With A Sleek Workflow And A Handy Tool, Marina Georgieva
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Metadata remediation of digital collections is inevitable. At some point, each repository faces the need to clean-up digital collections legacy metadata so that it conforms to new standards. Typically, this need emerges either as a response to an updated metadata application profile, or as preparation for migration to a new digital asset management system (DAMS). Normalized metadata is critical for an improved search experience and easy discovery of digital objects.
This case study focuses on the University of Nevada, Las Vegas’ (UNLV) experience of cleaning up and preparing non-MARC metadata for migration to a new DAMS. The author shares her …