You’ve assessed the readiness of your metadata and have developed ideas of what your institution is going to prioritize for cleanup. How will you use OpenRefine to enrich creator/contributor and format metadata? The workshop, its preparatory assignment, and its follow-up assignment, will equip you to make these decisions.

Instructors

• Anneliese Dehner, Metadata Applications Librarian, Alliance
• Jodi Allison-Bunnell, Program Manager, Alliance

Preparation

Please read the OpenRefine for Metadata Enrichment documentation.

Then, please complete the following preparations:

• Choose one of the reconciliation methods described in the documentation:
  • LoC Reconciliation Service (creators and contributors)
  • Conciliator (creators and contributors)
  • RDF extension for Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus (genre)
  • RDF extension for Library of Congress Subject Headings (subjects) 
• Add the chosen reconciliation service to OpenRefine
• Download this sample set
• Use the chosen reconciliation service to reconcile metadata values in the sample set. Need a refresher on OpenRefine functionality? Please refer to OpenRefine for Metadata Cleanup.
• The workshop is discussion-based is so much more worthwhile if everyone is prepared.
• Review the instructions and ground rules, and ensure that you are joining fromyour own computer and have both a microphone and headphones. The workshop is not a broadcast; it is a discussion.

Homework

• Choose an OAI-PMH set from your own institution
• In the Alliance Harvester:
  • Enrich creators/contributors with VIAF URIs
  • OR
  • Enrich genres to Getty AAT URIs
• Send your instructors an email about your experience by June 1.

Supported in part with a grant awarded by the Oregon Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) program of the Oregon State Library.