Dublin Core Metadata Harvested Through OAI-PMH

TLDR: This paper looks at metadata records created over a six-year period that have been harvested by the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and reports on quantitative and qualitative analyses of changes observed over time in shareable metadata quality.

Abstract: The introduction in 2001 of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) increased interest in and awareness of metadata quality issues relevant to digital library interoperability and the use of harvested metadata to build “union catalogs” of digital information resources. Practitioners have offered wide-ranging advice to metadata authors and have suggested metrics useful for measuring the quality of shareable metadata. Is there evidence of changes in metadata practice in response to such advice and/or as a result of an increased awareness of the importance of metadata interoperability? This paper looks at metadata records created over a six-year period that have been harvested by the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and reports on quantitative and qualitative analyses of changes observed over time in shareable metadata quality.

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TABLE 1. IMLS DCC and CIC Metadata Portals

TABLE 3. Percent of Records Containing Eight Core DC Fields, Based on Age of Record

TABLE 2. IMLS DCC Respositories Using Each Element

TABLE 4. Percent of All Records Containing Description and Format Fields

TABLE 5. Percent of Records Using Eight Core Fields by Collection Size