Metadata and Authority Systems for VLIRED Cuba
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2018
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Goovaerts, Marc
Ciudad Ricardo, Febe Angel
Álvarez Fernández, Luis Carlos
Tabares Martín, Leandro
Leiva Mederos, Amed Abel
Machado Rivero, Manuel Osvaldo
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This article is based on the experiences in the VLIRED Cuba programme with interoperability between the metadata of different platforms and the reusability of the data in different information silos. VLIRED Cuba, a VLIR-UOS network programme, started with implementing specific platforms for educational, library and information management and research output, resp. Moodle, ABCD, DSpace and VIVO. The final goal is to create an integrated research, education & information network. The authors defined the basic concepts metadata, authority systems and interoperability based on a literature study. “Interoperability
is enabling information that originates in one context to be used in another in ways that are as highly automated as possible”. But the overall success of such data structures being applied by a wide
variety of metadata producers will depend on the quality of the metadata content they provide. VLIRED Cuba chooses for open source software to develop the network: ABCD for the library, DSpace and VIVO for research information and Moodle for e-learning. But the platforms uses different metadata formats, respectively MARC, Qualified Dublin Core, a group of ontologies and LOM. To make the different systems interoperable the content should be described in standardized way. The project focused therefore on the key elements to standardize: people, organization and keywords. A basic principle is that these entities should be defined by a unique value. This has to be integrated in the different metadata formats. Authority systems will deliver standard content: for people ORCID, Cuban ID or local VIVO id’s - for keywords controlled vocabularies like CCS, AGROVOC and MESH. Finally VLIRED Cuba is developing tools like EsF´acil and EsF´acil Authority to create standardized metadata in different platforms. EsF´acil Authority is an authority system that can manage all type of authority lists and make then searchable through a
REST API. EsF´acil will collect and enrich publication metadata and make it available for systems with different metadata format.
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Metadata, Interoperability, Authority control, Learning environment, Research environment, Library, Iinformation systems, Institutional repositories, Unique identifiers