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Navigating from metadata disparities towards best practices: Analysis through crosswalking
Journal of Digital Media Management,
10
(3),
242-251
(2022)
Abstract
As organisations responsible for the management of digital assets grow, their collections eventually attain a critical mass where the need to shift from ad hoc procedures to industry standards becomes apparent. This paper provides a case study from the State Archives of North Carolina to illustrate one organisation’s approach to analysing, reconciling and remediating disparate sources of metadata. The methodology combines both bottom-up and top-down approaches to the assessment of digital asset metadata — a method that could be useful for other institutions when neither orientation by itself seems sufficient. While the example is taken from a cultural heritage institution in the government sector, the method is applicable to digital asset management practitioners in other settings as well.
Keywords: metadata; crosswalk; databases; internships; electronic records; digital archives; digital repository
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Author's Biography
Jamie Patrick-Burns is the Digital Archivist for the State Archives of North Carolina, where she is responsible for day-to-day operations, maintenance and development of the archive’s repository of borndigital and digitised records. Jamie has served on various internal and external committees and grant projects, and holds an MSLS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with a concentration in archives and records management, and an MA in public history from North Carolina State University.
Robin Haley is pursuing a master’s degree in library science at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her focus is archives and records management, specifically in digital archives, and she has a passion for digital preservation. Robin received her bachelor’s degree in information systems with emphasis in cyber security and database design from the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
Owen C. King is pursuing a master’s degree in information science at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His work focuses on digital archives. He has previously been employed as a faculty member in the philosophy departments at the University of Twente and Oberlin College. He has a PhD in philosophy from the Ohio State University.
