The Metadata Analysis and Specification Unit, a division of the Metadata Services Department, provides a number of metadata related services to the UCSD Libraries for internal and external projects. Services include mapping between metadata formats, object and functional specifications for the UCSD Libraries' DAMS, consultation on metadata creation for digitization projects, development of digital preservation metadata and related procedures. Members of the unit also participate in collaborative projects as outlined below.

Policies

• Metadata Policy Statement (doc) - August 2007
• DAMS Object Characteristics (pdf) - November 2007
• UCSD Rights Metadata Strategy
• Naming Protocol for Digital Content Files (pdf) - February 2007
• Lexicon of METS File Use attribute values (pdf) - March 2006

DAMS Specifications

• DAMS Collection Management Reports and Metadata Specification (pdf) - November 2007
• DAMS Search Specifications (pdf) - November 2007
  
  

METS Profiles

• Complex Object Profile - July 2007
• Simple Object Profile - July 2006
• Electronic Theses and Dissertations Profile (pdf) - March 2006
• Single Image Profile (xml) [superceded by Simple Object Profile] - January 2005

Reports, Presentations and Publications

• Article: Hutt, Arwen, Trish Rose-Sandler and Bradley D. Westbrook “Balancing the Needs of Producers and Managers of Digital Assets through Extensible Metadata Normalization”, Against the Grain, Volume 19, Number 1, February 2007
• Presentation on the Archivists' Toolkit to the Metadata Services Department (ppt) - April 2006
• Digital Collections Assessment Report (pdf) - March 2006
• Presentation on Electronic Theses and Dissertations to the Metadata Services Department

Collaborative Projects

Current
- Archivists' Toolkit
- Chronopolis

Past
- DIGARCH
- Data Center for Library of Congress Digital Holdings

Metadata Framework [in progress]