Want to know how to clean up and reconcile your metadata? Check out this site from the Free Your Metadata team. Free Your Metadata is a scientific collaboration between Multimedia Lab (ELIS — Ghent University / IBBT) and MasTIC (Université Libre de Bruxelles).
The clean up process employs Google Refine and there is a screencast demonstrating its use with example data from the Powerhouse Museum.
The goal of the reconciliation step is to connect collection-specific vocabulary to a controlled vocabulary like the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH).
Ultimately, the goal of squeaky clean metadata is interoperability, to prepare data for the Linked Data Cloud. Free your metadata!
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