[Data-Mongers] Noon TODAY, 1/10 Informatics Talk - A. Dorsk - Tools & Techniques for Cleaning Metadata

[Holly Miller]

 Informal Lunch Talk TODAY:

When: Noon, Monday, January 10, 2011
Where: Redfield Auditorium on the WHOI Woods Hole Village campus (map). 
Who: Alex Dorsk from the MBLWHOI Library
Title: "Tools & Techniques for Cleaning Metadata."

Summary:
Metadata cleaning is the process of converting metadata records into a more usable form.  It is often needed when sharing information, re-using old information, or making information more accessible.

Metadata cleaning is an engineering process and requires balancing various constraints including time, quality, and flexibility.  Various tools and strategies can help reduce time and improve quality and flexibility.

Speaker Bio:
Alex Dorsk is a data/systems librarian in the MBLWHOI Library. He works with both historical and modern data sets in the WHOI data library, and is interested in the design of human/computer systems for working with data.  Alex manages MetaDetergent, a website devoted to cleaning metadata: http://metadetergent.drupalgardens.com

The Monday Lunch talks are held every other Monday. We have created a wiki page for these and other Informatics events in Woods Hole. Please consider giving a talk, we have lot's of openings in 2011! Let us know if you about any informatics related event and we will add it to this page. Those of you who haven't subscribed to the Informatics discussion list, you might want to. Information on how to subscribe is on the wiki page above.

See you at noon!

Holly Miller 
hmiller at mbl.edu

Anne Thessen 
athessen at eol.org

Andrew Maffei 
amaffei at whoi.edu


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