Embedded Metadata and Extraction, Session #1
NDIIPP Annual Meeting
Thursday June 25, 2009
10:30a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Presenters:  Abbie Grotke (Library of Congress), Tracy Meehleib (Library of Congress), David Riecks (Stock Artists Alliance)

Attendees: 15

Overview
•	Abbie walked through the Web Archives project – the size of the archive, the access, the composition of the project team, and the archiving workflow and roles.
•	Abbie continued to explain how the team describes the collections via a MODS record in LCWA, the individual MARC records, and provided a brief overview of the Nominations Database.  
•	Tracy expanded upon the Web Archive cataloging workflow using oXygen, a visual XML editor (http://www.oxygenxml.com).  She displayed the MODS record data elements, using an example from a Darfur website.
•	Tracy concluded the first half of this session by navigating the Web Archives website and demonstrated how to search the MODS fields.  
•	David explained the goal and importance of the SAA Photo Metadata project.  He demonstrated the importance using several examples of photos with and without embedded metadata.  
•	David described the essential metadata each photo must contain, and how photographers may access guidance for captions, keywords, titles, and providers on the SAA Website.  
•	To conclude, David reviewed the various metadata schemas such as IPTC, EXIF, and PLUS.  He explained the synchronization issues between schemas and stated that there is a metadata working group examining the issue.

Plans
•	In the future, MODS tools will hide information that Web Archives catalogers do not need to see. 
•	The Web Archives team is experimenting with cloud generators and keywords that can be relevancy-ranked and embedded.  
•	Looking ahead, David believes that the IPTC Core schema will be the only schema you need to know.

Action items 
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