The Metadata Working Group kicked off a Field of the Month initiative in October 2021. This project is intended to help ensure that we move towards implementing last year’s recommendations for revisions to a variety of fields, many of which are still in the planning stage because they are dependent on metadata clean-up and/or we have not made a decision on our tolerance of metadata inconsistencies.
Each month for the next year, we will highlight one ScholarWorks field, rolling out revised help text on the work forms and guidance to campuses for required vs. optional metadata clean-up. These will be announced at each Open Forum meeting (the first Friday of each month).
For additional background information, please consult the Metadata Working Group slide deck from the October 1 Open Forum.