Projects
The DLF Assessment Interest Group (AIG) Metadata Working Group (MWG) has undertaken a number of projects since it was formed in 2015.
Ongoing/current projects
- A metadata assessment tools repository
- A collection of metadata application profiles, mappings, and practices
- A bibliography of noteworthy publications and presentations
- A survey of metadata assessment and metadata quality practices among various libraries, archives, and museums
- Blog posts
Archived/completed projects
- An environmental scan of metadata assessment and metadata quality literature, tools, presentations, and organizations (originally undertaken in 2016)
- A framework for assessing descriptive metadata in digital collections (undertaken in 2017)
- A Metadata Analysis Workshop designed to introduce library, archive, and museum metadata practitioners and technologists to the basic skills and knowledge needed to assess metadata quality using data analysis tools (originally undertaken in 2017 and updated in 2018)
- A list of skillbuilding resources including hands-on tutorials and other resources related to metadata technology skills (undertaken in 2022)