1. RDA/TDWG Metadata Standards for Attribution of Physical and Digital Collections Stewardship Anne E Thessen, Matt Woodburn, Dimitris Koureas 21 Sept, 2017/Montreal, Canada
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2. Summary of the Problem Problem Statement
Curators cannot get credit for curation activities
Impact of the unresolved problem
Collections are under-curated
Object provenance is lost
Actions may be unnecessarily repeated

3. Status of the Deliverable
Complete:
Develop use cases across domains via WG contribution and community engagement
Investigate existing schemas/infrastructure
In progress:
Evaluate applicability of existing models/KOSs and perform gap analysis
Draft attribution metadata standard and schema document
Remaining:
Schema review with feedback from case studies
Final attribution metadata standard and schema document
Liaise with stakeholders and community actors to establish adoption plans through piloting actions
Initiate process suggesting the schema for ratification as a community standard through TDWG

4. Initial Adopters Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG)
Implement a Darwin Core extension for use by biodiversity databases
TDWG 2017 meeting in October
PROV and VIVO
Adding to these ontologies will push our recommendations to all their users
CRediT

5. Expected Impact of the Deliverable
A mechanism for:
Improved recognition of the immense effort required for maintaining, curating, and sharing collections, which is likely to lead to increased funds for these activities
Increased efficiency in knowledge generation from collections through the proper documentation of corrections and analyses performed
Increased viability of crowdsourcing as a model for building collaborative research resources
Increased relevance of existing e-infrastructure that is being stifled by the expert annotation bottleneck

6. Expected Impact of the Deliverable
Before
After
Curation history either undocumented or not digital
Curators can only do curation tasks in the margin of their time
Actions are unnecessarily repeated because an item history is unknown
Curation history easily found
Curators can get credit for the very important work of maintaining research collections and can make it a priority
Curation and analysis tasks are made much more efficient

7. Feedback Desired from RDA Community
Are we missing any overlap or collaboration within RDA?
Any disciplinary concerns we are missing?