Navigating from metadata disparities towards best practices: Analysis through crosswalking

Jamie Patrick-Burns, Robin Haley and Owen C. King
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Jamie Patrick-Burns: State Archives of North Carolina, USA
Robin Haley: School of Information and Library Science, USA
Owen C. King: School of Information and Library Science, USA

Journal of Digital Media Management, 2022, vol. 10, issue 3, 242-251

Abstract: As organisations responsible for the management of digital assets grow, their collections eventually attain a critical mass where the need to shift from ad hoc procedures to industry standards becomes apparent. This paper provides a case study from the State Archives of North Carolina to illustrate one organisation’s approach to analysing, reconciling and remediating disparate sources of metadata. The methodology combines both bottom-up and top-down approaches to the assessment of digital asset metadata — a method that could be useful for other institutions when neither orientation by itself seems sufficient. While the example is taken from a cultural heritage institution in the government sector, the method is applicable to digital asset management practitioners in other settings as well.

Keywords: metadata; crosswalk; databases; internships; electronic records; digital archives; digital repository (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M11 M15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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