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Metadata and Search at Boeing

• Julie Martin
• Library Learning Center Services
• Julie.martin_at_boeing.com

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Boeing Metadata Standard

• In place since 1997
• Specifies Seven Mandatory Tags
• 5 from Dublin Core
• 2 Boeing-Specific
• Other DC elements are optional
• Additional Boeing elements are optional

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Boeing Mandatory Elements
Element Name Element Description
Title The name of the resource. 
Subject Keywords or phrases that describe the subject or content of the resource. Keywords should be chosen from the Boeing Thesaurus, a controlled vocabulary defined by Boeing Library Services. 
Creator The person(s) primarily responsible for creating the intellectual content of the resource e.g., author, engineer, artist, photographer, illustrator. 
Description A textual description of the content of the resource, including abstracts for document resources or content descriptions for visual resources.
Date The date of publication or last update
Validuntil The date the material must be re-validated or removed (Boeing addition to Dublin Core). 
Owner The name of a person accountable for this information. He or she will modify or remove it as needed and is duly authorized to carry out this role (Boeing addition to Dublin Core). 
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Boeing Optional Elements
Element Name Element Description
Rights The level of rights for access available to users for this particular data. Boeing values "open" (default), "proprietary," "limited," "exportcontrolled," "copyrightrestricted."
Publisher The person or entity responsible for making the resource accessible in its present form or media, including presenting, formatting, and distributing the content. 
Type The genre of the resource, such as planning or program directive, schedule, report, process metric, Java applet, etc.
Identifier  String or number used to uniquely identify the resource. For example Boeing "D6" number, memo number, information bulletin number.
UserRoles Role(s) of the intended user (Boeing addition). 
Robots Indicate to visiting Web Robots if page should be indexed, or links on the page should be followed (Boeing addition). 
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Boeing Optional Elements
Element Name Element Description
Contributors The person(s), such as editors and transcribers, who have made other significant intellectual contributions to the work. 
Format The data representation of the resource, such as Postscript file. 
Relation  Relationship to other resources. 
Source Resources, either print or electronic, from which this resource is derived. 
Language Language of the intellectual content. 
Coverage  The spatial locations and temporal duration of the resource. 
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Tools to Support MetadataMetatag Builder
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Tools to Support MetadataDocument Property Update

• A suite of Boeing-developed software programs
  that enable a person or application to manage
  (create, update, and delete) and retrieve (read)
  the document properties and document meta-data
  embedded within a variety structured document
  formats
• DPU Features
• Centralized/Localized Property Catalog
• Rules-based metadata/property update
• Proxy (stub) file support for unsupported
  document formats
• Supports the use of xml templates to promote
  reuse.

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General Issues

• Only about 5 of web pages contain metadata
• Time/effort required to add metadata
• Lack of skill in applying metadata
• Promotion of Content Culture
• Happening slowly
• Need to feel the pain before being willing to
  invest in processes and tools.
• Need to see visible ROI on investment

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Technology issues

• Integration of standards-based metadata support
  into authoring and editing tools
• Integration of vocabularies with tagging tools
• Simple drop-down lists to complex thesauri
• Tools and processes for managing multiple
  metadata element sets and vocabularies.