Browsing by Author "Lohrey, Melissa"

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    How we went from worst practices to good practices, and became happier in the process
    French, Amanda; Kayiwa, Francis; Lawrence, Anne S.; Gilbertson, Keith; Lohrey, Melissa (2016-04-25)
    Our application team was struggling. We had good people and the desire to create good software, but the library as an organization did not yet have experience with software development processes. Work halted. Team members felt unfulfilled. The once moderately competent developer felt frustrated, ashamed, helpless, and incompetent. Then, miraculously, a director with experience in software project management and an experienced and talented systems administrator were hired and began to work with the team. People in the group developed a sense of teamwork that they had not experienced in their entire time at the library. Now we are happy, excited, and energetic. We hope that you will appreciate our “feel-good” testimony of how excellent people and appropriate processes transformed an unhealthy work environment into a fit and happy team.
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    LCA Metadata: Challenges and Opportunities
    Lohrey, Melissa (National Agricultural Library (U.S.), 2014-10-06)
    Metadata is essential for resource management, discovery, and usability. Descriptive metadata is especially important for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) studies, which rely on precise measurements, calculations, and contextual information to ascertain a product or process’s relevance to a production or Life Cycle model. Without sufficient descriptive metadata detailing LCA components such as methods, sampling procedures, technical details, and geographic specificity, it is difficult or impossible for users to understand, reuse, validate, or draw conclusions from the data. Administrative metadata is also essential to LCA data documentation. Administrative metadata, which captures resource information such as provenance, access and use restrictions, authenticity, and file formats, not only aids users in discerning potential and acceptable data uses, but also assists data managers in ensuring and improving data access. This poster will outline the benefits of and need for extensive descriptive and administrative metadata documenting LCA studies. It will also address the Life Cycle Assessment Commons (LCAC) schema, a metadata standard for LCAC data sets, as well as current LCA metadata standards such as ILCD (International Reference Life Cycle Data System) and EcoSpold versions 1 and 2.
  • VTechWorks Metadata Guidelines, Version 1.2, 10/18/2016
    Lohrey, Melissa; Doyle, Jana; Finn, Mary; Lawrence, Anne S. (Virginia Tech, 2016-02-02)
    This document, which can be downloaded as a CSV file, describes the administrative, technical, and descriptive metadata encoding guidelines for VTechWorks resources. VTechWorks uses the Dublin Core and NDLTD metadata standards to enhance the discoverability, accessibility, and use of VTechWorks resources. VTechWorks has also developed custom metadata fields, as well as leveraged encoding guidelines from the Texas Digital Library and the MODS (Metadata Object Description Schema) standards, to improve the description and findability of VTechWorks resources. These guidelines are updated regularly; for questions or comments, please contact vtechworks@vt.edu.