By Sandra McIntyre, Mountain West Digital Library
A few months back, we learned about some useful tools for metadata auditing. The North Carolina Digital Heritage Center shared these tools with other Service Hubs in the Digital Public Library of America network, including MWDL. I customized NCDHC’s tools to reflect the required and recommended fields in the MWDL Dublin Core Application Profile. We have started to use them to audit metadata for new collections submitted for aggregation into MWDL, and they really speed up this process!
Now our collections partners can use them as well for their own metadata auditing while creating or revising collections. These tools make it easy to examine the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) provision of metadata from your digital assets management system, so you can check it for conformance to MWDL and DPLA standards. They display the OAI data in an attractive, easy-to-read format, so you don’t have to pore through records one by one or look at hundreds of lines of tagged XML.
http://mwdlnews.blogspot.com/2015/11/new-tools-for-rapid-auditing-of-your.html