Cleaning up messy metadata with OpenRefineExport this event to calendar

Tuesday, May 21, 2019 — 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT

The largest collection inÌýUWSpace, the Library-hosted repository of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ research, is the university’s ever-growing collection of electronicÌýtheses and dissertations. As these are added to the collection by their authors—not library staff—theirÌýmetadataÌýare ofÌývarying quality, and the subject keyword vocabulary isÌýuncontrolled.

In this presentation, ÌýJordan Hale and Larisa SmykÌý will discuss theirÌýsemi-automatedÌýapproach to cleaning up the subject index, from the technical constraints posed by theÌýDSpaceÌýrepository platform to the special considerations of working within aÌýSTEM environment, and will demonstrate howÌýOpenRefineÌýprovides us with a starting point for tidying up this research collection.ÌýOpenRefineÌýis a freely available application forÌýdata wrangling—data cleanup and transformation to other formats.

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LIB - Dana Porter Library
Meeting room 428
200 University Avenue West

À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ, ON N2L 3G1
Canada
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