Dear all,

I'm writing to ask about other repositories who operate a mediated metadata policy.

Do you go to the level of detail of including the references from journal articles in your metadata records?

If so, do you re-format those references into Harvard style?

Is this policy proving to be useful/successful?

I ask because we're doing mediated metadata, and the biggest expenditure of time for our cataloguer is formatting these references for the metadata record. I'm wondering if there is a way to automate this process, extracting the references from an MS Word or pdf file, to turn them into a properly formatted Harvard bibliography. I'm also wondering whether we're the only ones going to this level of detail or not, and what other repository managers think about this topic.

Please do reply to me and I'll summarise responses for the list.

Many thanks,

Jen

Jenny Delasalle

E-Repositories Manager

Research & Innovation Unit
University of Warwick Library
Gibbet Hill Road
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom

Tel: (+44) (0) 24 765 75793

http://go.warwick.ac.uk/repositories