Content en Metadata Management

Goal

The Content and Metadata Management working group – formerly known as the Consultation of the Heads of the Back Office – focuses on setting up the entire process from acquisition to availability (FAIR), including making metadata findable and usable. Among other things, the group focuses on issues surrounding the application of metadata and arriving at a shared vision – in an international context – for the use of metadata in our collections. Another important objective is achieving as much cooperation as possible in back-office processes and in the realisation of a digital library.

Tasks

  • Sharing knowledge in the field: mutual exchange of practices and developments
  • Identifying best practices
  • Participating in the realisation of the UKB work programme for topics in the field of back-office processes
  • Drawing up an annual plan with concrete intentions and an evaluation of the results achieved
  • Advising UKB on the collaboration desired in back-office processes
  • Advising other UKB working groups on interfaces with back-office processes
  • Presenting the progress of cooperation in UKB meetings

UKB-OHB Driejarenplan2022-2025 (in Dutch)

Sub-working groups

The working group can set up temporary sub-working groups for specific topics in the field of back-office processes. Participants from outside UKB may be invited to participate in these sub-working groups. The Metadata Expertise Group is a structural sub-working group which gives advice on collective metadata issues and developments in this area. The SMKB expertise group (chaired by Jacob Heeren) consists of knowledge-base key users from all universities. Together, they manage the UKB collections.

Members

The members of the Content and Metadata Management working group have a managerial position at their library in the field of back-office processes Members of sub-working groups are specialists in the relevant topic.

Nelleke Baas – TU Eindhoven
Vacature – Tilburg University
Marcel Broekarts – TU Delft – chair
Errol Graf – University of Amsterdam
Barbara Eggels – Radboud Universiy Nijmegen
Feddie Nicolai – Groningen University
Jacob Heeren – Leiden University
Dennis Mark – National Library of the Netherlands
Dicky van Donselaar – Wageningen University and Research
Petra Otten – Wageningen University and Research – secretary
Yvonne van den Broek – Maastricht University
Olga Steen – University of Twente
Ellen de Vries – VU Amsterdam
Rogier Schumacher – Utrecht University

Liaison UKB: Marjolein Nieboer – Groningen University