Metadata Wrangling at Scale: One Librarian's Quest to Tame Our Electronic Theses Collection

Authors

Zeineb Yousif, University of North DakotaFollow

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Description

What does eight years, partnerships with your ILL and Cataloging departments, and several student workers get you? Amazing progress on your quest to digitize 140 years worth of theses and dissertations completed at your university! But also...real quality control struggles. This presentation will share lessons learned from a large scale retrospective digitization project including how to coordinate across departments and staffing changes, avoid duplicating effort, and use digital tools like Excel and OpenRefine to identify and correct metadata errors after the fact.

Publication Date

10-2-2025

Document Type

Presentation

City

Grand Forks, ND

Keywords

metadata, digitization, ETDs

Disciplines

Cataloging and Metadata

Comments

Presented at the 2025 NDLA Tri-Conference, Grand Forks, ND, October 3-4, 2025.

Recommended Citation

Yousif, Zeineb, "Metadata Wrangling at Scale: One Librarian's Quest to Tame Our Electronic Theses Collection" (2025). Librarian Posters and Presentations. 31.
https://commons.und.edu/cfl-lpp/31

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