BCMIG Fall 2024 Virtual Program: Conceptual Models in Digital Collections

Please join ALA CORE’s Bibliographic Conceptual Models Interest Group (BCMIG) on Friday, September 20, 2024 at 12pm MT/11AM PT for the next virtual learning session. Our theme will be conceptual modeling and digital collections. The session will consist of two presentations (see details below), followed by Q&A.

Registration: https://ala-events.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkcemoqjwsE9KQnuXAfckzvyjp8JTm5Boc

Round Pegs in Square Holes: Metadata Application Profiles in Large-Scale Metadata Aggregation

Teresa K. Hebron, Mountain West Digital Library

Abstract: Mountain West Digital Library (MWDL) was founded in 2001 and offers a public search portal supporting discovery of over a million items from digitized historical collections throughout the Mountain West. Aggregation necessitates a metadata application profile (MAP) to ensure metadata consistency and interoperability from the member network of libraries, archives, and community history organizations. Unique issues arise in combining metadata from diverse digital repository platforms and aggregation tech stacks introduce further constraints. Upstream aggregation of metadata in the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) also influences local and regional modeling decisions. This presentation will briefly trace the history of MWDL’s MAPs, focusing primarily on decisions and changes made in the most recent version published in early 2020.

Bio: Teresa K. Hebron is the current Program Director of Mountain West Digital Library (based at University of Utah, Salt Lake City). She joined MWDL in 2018 as Digital Metadata Librarian with a deep background in project management and technical support for integrated library systems. Her research focuses on metadata in large-scale aggregation projects, data visualization, and librarian employment patterns.

Metadata Models for Research: Developing an Application Profile for the OSF

Gretchen Gueguen, Center for Open Science

Abstract: This presentation will cover the development of an application profile for the Open Science Framework (OSF), a diverse repository and collaboration tool geared for research. The platform was originally launched in 2012 and has added major new digital object models and workflows without a centralized metadata model. In 2022 and 2023, staff endeavored to create a model that would both accommodate past decisions and future growth, while retaining the unique nature of the platform which is organized around research projects, rather than the individual digital objects that are the output of research. Using DataCite and Dublin Core as pillars, the new model is designed for an RDF implementation, utilizing linked data and semantic web concepts to power a new search API and interface for OSF.

Bio: Gretchen Gueguen is an archivist and librarian specializing in digital libraries and technology. She currently works at the Center for Open Science on the Open Science Framework (OSF) and is an adjunct professor for the PennWest – Clarion University Department of Information and Library Science. Gretchen has managed metadata services, digitization, and repository development at several universities including the University of Maryland, East Carolina University, and the University of Virginia, as well as part of the Digital Public Library of America. She currently works with an international network of academic institutions and other research organizations as part of the OSF Institutions Membership Program.

Best regards,

BCMIG Co-Chairs: Emily Baldoni, Benjamin Riesenberg

BCMIG Co-Vice-Chairs: Irma Fraticelli, Xiying Mi