Remediation by Degrees

Enhancing ETD Metadata to Improve Discoverability

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https://doi.org/10.3776/ncl.v81i1.5426

Abstract

In 2022, staff at J. Murrey Atkins Library initiated a metadata remediation project project that inserted FAST controlled vocabulary terms for subjects into legacy ETD records in its Niner Commons repository through an automated process and normalized data in other elements, all with a view to improving discoverability and the user experience. This case study describes the stages of the remediation process, the difficulties that were encountered in the course of the work, the results and findings of the project, and the challenges of ETD metadata remediation work in the contemporary institutional repository environment.

Author Biographies

Savannah Lake, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Savannah Lake is the Digital Scholarship Librarian at J. Murrey Atkins Library at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Joseph Nicholson, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Joseph Nicholson is Metadata Librarian at J. Murrey Atkins Library at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

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Published

2023-09-15

Issue

Vol. 81 No. 1 (2023): North Carolina Libraries

Section

Research & Librarianship

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Copyright (c) 2023 Joseph Nicholson, Savannah Lake

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