In December 2017, the Repository and Metadata team were given a two part charge.
1. Reviewing the Charge which includes
• Putting schemas, standards and workflows into place in order to ensure interoperability and functionality across the systems of the DAME.
• Consult with relevant stakeholders in the DAME, including: including curators, the Digital Archivist and Digital Preservation Librarian, copyright experts, Digital Initiatives, the Office of Scholarly Communication, and the DAME’s Interfaces & Discovery group
• Focus primarily on metadata implementation with the DAME’s Repository stems
2. Recommending metadata schema for Fedora and DSpace
• Do an environmental scan that examines how other institutions have approached Fedora and DSpace
• Gather information concerning how metadata is stored and expressed in DSpace/Fedora.
• Make recommendations for moving between these systems and achieving interoperability
• Recommendations for schema, including preferred usage of controlled vocabularies
• Recommendations for approaching metadata (i.e. templates, collection level or format)
• Recommendations for assigning materials to either DSpace of Fedora
• Minimal Metadata requirements
• Recommendations for metadata creation workflo
