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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Janet Carleton | Digital Initiatives Coordinator | Digital Initiatives | Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, Preservation & Digital Initiatives |
OHIO University Libraries | Alden 333 | Athens, Ohio | 740.597.2527 | she/her | </span>
<span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><a href="mailto:carleton@ohio.edu"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">carleton@ohio.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"> | Digital
Archives - <a href="https://media.library.ohio.edu/"><span style="color:black">https://media.library.ohio.edu</span></a> | Archives Finding Aids -
<a href="https://archivesspace.ohio.edu/"><span style="color:black">https://archivesspace.ohio.edu/</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Tarver, Hannah <Hannah.Tarver@UNT.EDU>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, December 9, 2025 3:46 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> DLF-ANNOUNCE@LISTS.CLIR.ORG<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [External] Benchmarks for Metadata Quality Now Available<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">The DLF-AIG Metadata Assessment Working Group (MWG) is pleased to announce the public release of benchmarks for metadata quality:
<a href="https://dlfmetadataassessment.github.io/MetadataQualityBenchmarks/" id="OWA3f2eb31f-2902-adfc-0327-f7ad7608761c">
https://dlfmetadataassessment.github.io/MetadataQualityBenchmarks/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Benchmarks include minimal, suggested better-than-minimal, and ideal criteria for descriptive metadata quality, primarily related to cultural heritage and digital library materials. The expanded benchmarks outline
metrics and examples to show how the benchmarks might be applied. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Supporting documentation is intended to supplement the benchmarks by providing [1] questions to answer before benchmarking, to help organizations think through how they want to approach these activities; [2] various
quality metrics synthesized from a number of metadata frameworks that could be used by organizations to develop local better-than-minimal standards; and [3] citations and other reference materials on related topics for further reading.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">See the full blog post announcement here:
<a href="https://www.diglib.org/benchmarks-for-metadata-quality/" id="OWA475c4262-4fc4-1a19-21cf-73de1404d2af">
https://www.diglib.org/benchmarks-for-metadata-quality/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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