Presentation - New Directions in Description Presentation: Metadata Management in Practice

Lynn Herbert on practice: This presentation discusses issues and challenges in the practice of managing metadata. It will cover the evolving role of metadata in the publishing and administration of electronic content and why managing the metadata for long-term growth and usefulness is important. The practical aspects of metadata management will be described, ranging from developing and sustaining the framework, incorporating metadata elements and value sets into the technology, performing quality assurance and implementing change management processes. Lynn Herbert M.A, MLIS is currently Manager, Metadata Integrity Services in the Enterprise Information Management Directorate at Service Canada. She has 15 years of experience working for the federal government on a variety of online services and information management projects, both from the technical and management perspective. She has worked as a reference librarian at the National Library of Canada, during which time she also built the library's early Internet presence in 1994. From 2000-2004 she managed the project to procure and implement advanced search and enterprise content management tools for Social Development Canada and used the tools to build a metadata-driven website. The project won a 2003 GTEC Gold Medal for Strategic Information Management. Lynn is currently serving as chair of the GOL Metadata Working Group's CMS Metadata Sub-Group.