Partner Metadata Dashboard
The Metadata Dashboard is a website to help our partners understand the quality and completeness of metadata they are contributing to DigitalNZ. We hope this service will help you identify opportunities for improving your metadata.
The Metadata Dashboard can help you understand:
- the last date DigitalNZ harvested data from your website,
- whether your website is currently live or suppressed within DigitalNZ,
- the number of items from your collections currently available through DigitalNZ search,
- an overall metadata quality score,
- breakdown statistics of all of your items in our index organised by rights, category and the type of object,
- counts of how many items have complete and incomplete metadata, broken down by metadata fields, with links to examples.
If you contribute metadata to DigitalNZ, and you would like access to the Metadata Dashboard, please contact us. We will set you up and supply the necessary login details.
The Metadata Dashboard is available at metadata.digitalnz.org.
Identifying opportunities to improve your metadata
After DigitalNZ harvests metadata from our partners' collections and websites, we transform the information into a common schema and store it in our database. The Dashboard provides an overview of what metadata DigitalNZ indexes from each of your collections. We hope these summary tables will help us work with you to identify gaps in the metadata we harvest from you.
The screenshot below shows part of a website metadata summary table for a particular DigitalNZ collection. In this collection we can see that every single item has a collection name, a content partner name and the name of the person who is the creator the item (e.g. the author, photographer). However, ten items lack a date. It is possible to see exactly which records have missing dates by clicking on the appropriate number in the Count Empty column.
Some metadata fields might not be relevant for your collection. For example, 4,938 items in the example above do not have a contributor value. This is because the contributor field is not applicable for the large majority of items in this particular collection. If you have questions about the meaning of any of the metadata fields we can work with you to help you understand how their relevance to your collection(s).
Interpreting your Metadata Quality Score
The metadata quality score is an average score across all the records in your collection. It currently takes into account the present absence of data in 150+ metadata fields we could harvest for each item. This method ensures that most collections currently receive a low score. So please don't take these scores too seriously at the moment. We are working to make this score a more useful indicator of the quality of your metadata by taking into account only the most important fields. The method we use to calculate the score will change significantly in coming weeks. We will update this page and dashboard help text when this happens.