The ALA Core Metadata Standards Committee has developed a rubric to help
information professionals evaluate metadata schemas in order to select one
that  would best fit the needs of a given project.  The first official
version of the Metadata Schema Assessment Framework is now available
via the ALA
Institutional Repository <https://hdl.handle.net/11213/22781>.


The Committee identified several criteria that can be used to evaluate
metadata schemas, including: ease of access, applicability, completeness,
consistent representation, interoperability, understandability, rate of
adoption, maintenance, and transparency, bias & engagement.


The rubric also contains levels for assessing the extent that a given
schema meets each criterion from lowest (e.g., minimally acceptable) to
highest (value added or most complex).


If you work with metadata, the committee welcomes your feedback, including
how useful this rubric would be in selecting a schema in your daily work,
suggestions for improvement, and case studies of the framework in real-life
applications.


Feedback can be given by submitting comments and questions through a Google
form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSebhGJ3alGXF0GejekAJy0CVZ09f0FU72BL34GnWccGkaneew/viewform?usp=sharing>
*. *Feedback on the framework will be collected and reviewed continuously
by the ALA Core Metadata Standards Committee and will be considered and
incorporated in future versions of the framework.

On behalf of the ALA Core Metadata Standards Committee,

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Sasha Frizzell (she/they)

Catalog / Metadata Management Librarian

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