Svetlana+Ushakova

Svetlana Ushakova - volunteerMetadata Team

Hi! My name is Svetlana. My interests have been always between humanities and mathematics. More than twenty years ago, I chose humanities and got a doctoral degree in Russian history. However, I didn't lose my interest to signs, symbols and quantitative analysis, and try to apply this interest to my historical researches. After moving to the USA with my family in 2009, I decided to change my career and get a master degree in library and information science. Now, I am student of School of Information at San Jose State University. I believe it may be a perfect combination of my two interests. I am especially interested in techniques and methods of processing and classifying of the information, and I hope to get practice knowledge about metadata and cataloging participating in this project. I also hope to meet here new friends and colleagues.

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Correspondence
From Sharada: Svetlana, I just added Metadata Team links to your page, as per Liza's instructions. Thanks!

From Liza to Svetlana Aug 22, 2014

I just read over the comments on the NARA site It doesn't look like any introduction is necessary so let's just skip that and post your suggestion.

From Svetlana to Liza, Aug 20, 2014 Hi Liza! I tried to compose a comment for NARA, and I wasn't sure how to introduce myself, or rather how to introduce HCLE. "History of Computing in Learning & Education Virtual Museum"?

From Svetlana to Liza, Aug 13, 2014 Hi Lisa! It was nice to talk to you and see you yesterday.We agreed to publish HCLE fields names on Metadata_Standards page, as well as main MARC fields. After I have finished it, I will continue my work on comparison the fields of several Metadata standards (MARC, Dublin Core, Stanford Finding Aid, and HCLE). I think that, doing it, I will have some more suggestions to discuss about our standard. It was interesting to learn about some projects and organizations in museum area. Talk to you soon,

Svetlana

From Liza to Svetlana Aug 5, 2014 Thanks for getting started, Svetlana. I'm sorry about the sound on our phone call yesterday. It looks like you got a lot of what I said. I'll continue here. I suggested 3 tasks:
 * 1) Set up this page. You've done that very well. I have a few further suggestions.
 * 2) When you use a dark background color change the text color to white or something light and add a few leading and trailing spaces so the text stands out.
 * 3) Add as much color and as many pictures as you have time for. It makes the pages much more interesting for readers. I'm almost always in a hurry so my pages are very boring. I hope you will do as I say and not what I do!
 * 4) Wiki's are "flat" unless we add lots of links and navigation buttons to them. I'll try to do that more as I write to you. Whenever you refer to a page on this wiki or on another site, put a link to it. You can also add "anchors" to a specific place within a wiki page (although I've now forgotten how to do that).
 * 5) Put a chart with your volunteer hours on the bottom of the page - I see you didn't log the time you spent setting up this page. It counts! Please add whatever time you spent, including learning time.
 * 6) Make a middle section that describes the tasks you are considering doing for HCLE. Since you didn't get very far on that (thanks to AT&T) I'll start it now and we can talk further in our upcoming phone call.

This is a great beginning and I'm delighted you want to work with us. Cheers, Liza

From Svetlana to Liza Loop, Aug 5, 2014 Hello Liza! It was very nice to talk to you yesterday. I'm looking forward to our collaboration. Unfortunately, sound quality on my end was not very good, and I was not able to understand well everything (but I hoped that I would be able to understand more when I begin to look at the site). So, that's how I understood it. You asked me to take a look at metadata standards and tell what I think about it. I see that so far you use for cataloging Dublin Core, and I think that this is one of the best options as it allows to describe various types of documents.

Proposed tasks and assignments
The goal of the Metadata Team is to make the items in HCLE easily discoverable by the public and useful to people working on HCLE projects. We have a wide range of projects from inventorying and preserving our artifacts and documents to using them in the various kinds of online exhibits HCLE will offer. I (Liza) have thought a lot about the kinds of information we need to associate with each item but I have no professional background in metadata so I'm hoping the Metadata Team will guide HCLE in this regard.

Here are links to related pages on this wiki: Catalog Data Entry Process , Catalog Discussion , Database Team , Relational Structure, Education Ontology, Metadata Standards

Here are some tasks I would like someone to tackle...
 * 1) Work with Liza to create a coherent set of tasks to be undertaken.
 * 2) Edit HCLE wiki so that Catalog, Database Team and Metadata Team pages make sense to new visitors.
 * 3) Establish a "metadata advisory board" of others working at institutions in the English and Russian speaking communities to discuss the problem of metadata for online museums and archives.
 * 4) Create a "metadata crosswalk" (see Wikipedia article) from HCLE's 90 odd existing fields to several standards. Here is a preliminary list of [[file:HCLE Field Names.xls|HCLE field names]]. Stan Crump, on the Database Team is working on creating data entry
 * 5) Propose additional fields that would enable linking of HCLE's item catalog with individuals and institutions to be managed through CiviCRM.
 * 6) Propose schema to permit linkage from Library of Congress or OCLC to HCLE's catalog for books and documents

Volunteer Log
2. Learn about metadata standards that are used now for describing HCLE's items. ||=  ||
 * = ===Date=== ||= ===Hours donated=== ||= ===Description=== ||= ===Comments=== ||
 * = 08/04/2014 ||= 1 ||< 1. Set up a volunteer page.
 * 08/05/2014 ||= 1/2 || Telephone conversation with Liza about tasks and assignments. ||  ||
 * 08/07/2014 ||= 1/2 || Learn about general conception of "metadata crosswalk" (see Wikipedia article) and an example of crosswalk created by Library of Congress MARC to Dublin Core Crosswalk ||  ||
 * 08/09/2014 ||= 1 1/2 || Edit Metadata Standards page to reflect properly the relationship between sections "Elements of Dublin Core" and "Terms for the Type Element in DC". ||  ||
 * 08/11/2014 ||= 1 || Learn about the specific of HCLE fields comparing to Dublin Core. ||  ||
 * 08/12/2014 ||= 1 || Telephone meeting with Liza. ||  ||
 * 08/14/14 || 1 || Telephone meeting with Liza and Tom. ||  ||
 * 08/18/14 || 2 || Worked on comments for NARA blog about minimum metadata requirements for submitting electronic records to NARA ||  ||
 * 08/25/14 || 1 || Telephone meeting with Liza and Tom ||  ||
 * 08/29/14 || 1 || Learned about CiviCRM ||  ||
 * 09/03/14 || 1 || Worked on comparison of five "communication" formats of MARC and nine formats of HCLE ||  ||
 * 09/08/14 || 1 || Telephone meeting with Liza and Tom ||  ||
 * 09/10/14 || 1 || Learning about MARC standards ||  ||
 * 09/15/14 || 1 || Added the information about myself to the grant proposal ||  ||
 * 10/25/14 || 3 || Wrote a [|blog post] about HCLE cataloging system ||  ||
 * 11/3/14 || 1 || Telephone meeting with Liza and Tom ||  ||
 * 11/5/14 || 1 || Webinar "Preservation Self-Assessment Program" || will be discussed during the next meeting ||
 * 11/7/14 || 1 || Reviewed catalog screen views || see comments on Metadata Standards page ||
 * 12/17/14 || 3 || Reviewed catalog screen views ||  ||
 * 12/18-12/30/14 || 51/2 || Reviewed catalog screen views; metadata crosswalk ||  ||
 * 12/22/14 || 1 || Telephone meeting with Liza and Tom ||  ||
 * **Total for the second half of 2014** || 30 ||  ||   ||
 * 01/02/15-01/21/15 || 12 || Reviewed catalog screen views; metadata crosswalk || See [[file:metadata_crosswalk for HCLE.v1 (1).xlsx|metadata crosswalk]] ||
 * 01/05/15 || 1 || Telephone meeting with Liza and Tom ||  ||
 * 01/12/15 || 1 || Telephone meeting with Liza and Tom ||  ||
 * 01/19/15 || 1 || Telephone meeting with Liza and Tom ||  ||
 * 01/24/15 || 7 || Metadata crosswalk: deciphering MARC and EAD fields ||  ||
 * 03/25/15 || 1 || Post a comment in the discussion on Metadata Standards page ||  ||
 * 03/25/15 || 1 || Post a comment in the discussion on Metadata Standards page ||  ||