Data Remediation Working Group (DaRT)

Data Remediation (DaRT) Working Group

Background:
In 2019, the RAD Program established the Data Remediation Working Group to serve two purposes:
1) Facilitate a migration of data to a new ILS for the Libraries and affiliate libraries
2) Set the Libraries on a path toward systematic and holistic library data management

With the ILS migration to be scheduled in the future and following the reorganization, the Metadata Services Program retained the team, which met consistently throughout 2020. The team met on February 18, 2021, to discuss its scope and suggest a more focused and relevant charge for the near term. This rewritten charge reflects this conversation.

Data Remediation is one of two core operational working groups within the Metadata Services program. It provides support for the decision and practice flow from policy to data projects for library collection metadata. The team is led by a Metadata Services unit head, and membership is cross-sector.

Purpose:
The purpose of the Data Remediation Working Group is to provide a regular, cross-organizational place to address specific metadata-related concerns related to library bibliographic metadata, i.e., data stored within organizational ILS systems. It utilizes a variety of approaches to achieve work, i.e., hack sessions and small group collaboration to complete specific assignments. Members are committed to actively sharing what they know about the use of new tools and to applying innovative methods to ensure data integrity and quality. The working group believes that metadata management should reflect positively on the patron's discovery experience, and decisions are made with this mindset.

Scope:
The scope is bibliographic database preparation for next-generation metadata to the extent possible, keeping the following factors in mind:
--Systems-agnostic data solutions
--Best practices and current standards for clarity and consistency
--Data reuse in designing remediation solutions
--The broader metadata and systems ecosystem, i.e., beyond the ILS

General Goals:
- To complete the established punch list of remediation issues and to review and celebrate work completed as a measure of success.
- To prioritize, projectize and manage the punch list to communicate and monitor team effort.
- To act with standards in mind, new standards that are implemented, and policies and practices put in place within member organizations.
- To look for programmatic solutions that align with current staffing capacity.
- To fully understand, utilize and operationalize available systems and services, e.g., OCLC services currently available.

Membership:
Lead: Unit Head - Electronic Resources & Collection Metadata Management
Interim Lead - Peggy Griesinger

Members:
Daniela Rovida - MS
Jared Collins - MS
Lisa Stienbarger - MS
Sarah Kolda - Holy Cross College
Cindy Tian - Law

Sponsor:
Lisa Stienbarger - MS - MS Intranet