A Service of the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records

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Arizona Memory Project Creating a Metadata
Dictionary for Diverse Collections
Sara Muth, Digital Librarian Marisa Ramirez,
Digital Repository Coordinator Arizona State
Library, Archives and Public Records
A Service of the Arizona State Library, Archives
and Public Records
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Background Considerations

• Developed Sept 2005 for Arizona Memory Project
• Based on DC other existing digital project
  metadata standards
• Designed to accommodate a diverse set of
  collections

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Challenges

• Unqualified DC
• Need to accommodate various controlled
  vocabularies, syntaxes disciplines
• Establishing common CVs
• Software limitations
• Maintenance of CVs across collections

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Search
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Browse
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Practical ApplicationArizona State Agency
Publications

• Grouping similar documents
• Authority control
• Providing access between OPAC and Arizona Memory
  Project without federated search
• Dealing with serials

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Monograph
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Annual
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Page Level Metadata
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Object Level Metadata
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For the Future

• Software enhancements
• Challenge of ensuring quality of the metadata in
  a collaborative project
• Consider Metadata Guidelines as a living document

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Arizona Memory Projecthttp//azmemory.lib.az.us
CONTACT
Sara Muth Digital Cataloging Librarian Arizona
State Library, Archives and Public Records Email
smuth_at_lib.az.us Marisa Ramirez Arizona Memory
Project Digital Repository Coordinator Arizona
State Library, Archives and Public Records Email
mramirez_at_lib.az.us