Yu Su, former research assistant of mine (Fall 2002-Spring 2003), now with the Indiana Humanities Council as Digital Librarian sent this email question through the Radio UserLand community server.
"I am implementing the quality control procedures for metadata creation; can you
direct me to some good practices and sample manuals? I would appreciate any
information from you. This is a digital repository (SmartDesktop) for
educational materials, developed by Indiana Humanities Council."
QC procedures, metadata manuals, etc. are only now emerging for DC. I'm assuming the interest is in DC as opposed to other metadata standards. A good place to start is Bruce and Hillman's paper on Metadata Quality. URL: http://metamanagement.comm.nsdlib.org/meta-quality/index.html
The manual that I've written, somewhat drawn from this (work for GROW NSDL), and currently in press (watch the weblog for an announcement shortly) is the only one I know of that actually gives lots of examples (best practices) for the types of web resources libraries may collect and want to catalog. ALA is to publish a book titled Metadata: Principles and Practices. Each chapter is from a digital library describing how they've handled the metadata challenges (different metadata standards are covered). Hillman and Bruce's presentation above is a chapter in this book. For a list of useful resources check the Metadata section of my Knowledge Structures Toolbox.
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