The Digital Library Federation (DLF) has released a report on the Future Directions in Metadata Remediation for Metadata Aggregators that identifies and evaluates tools that can be used to normalize and enhance metadata. The intended application is for "cultural heritage materials" in digital libraries, but there are aspects that could be applied more generally for any situation involving digitisation.
Download the report from http://www.diglib.org/ - DLF Aquifer News.
From the report:
"DLF Aquifer, a Digital Library Federation initiative, focuses on making digital content—especially cultural heritage materials pertinent to American culture and life—easier for scholars to find and use. One avenue to providing better access to digital collections is by including the collections in aggregations that are promoted and exposed through commonly used channels such as commercial search services.
Successful aggregation depends on robust, consistent metadata. While data providers may strive to include all applicable fields for their chosen metadata format in newly created records, records that have been mapped from legacy data in other formats will seldom be optimized in their new home, and the creators of these records may not have the resources to augment these records in any more than the simplest ways. Remediation tools to improve the quality of metadata for improved services are therefore highly desirable."
Postscript: (Feb 24)
Full report is at http://www.diglib.org/pubs/dlf110.pdf
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