HathiTrust Doesn’t Monkey Around With Metadata Management

"HathiTrust recently launched Zephir, its new system for managing bibliographic metadata. The University of California’s CDL (California Digital Library), one of the founding institutions of HathiTrust, developed Zephir to store, manage, and export metadata to bibliographic records that accompany digital items in HathiTrust’s repository of about 11 million volumes. All digital materials submitted to HathiTrust’s repository must be accompanied by bibliographic metadata. Previously, the University of Michigan had managed the metadata in its local ILS. Now, institutions contributing to HathiTrust send the CDL their metadata. Zephir is HathiTrust’s 'first distributed development of a major repository component outside the University of Michigan,' according to the press release. How It Works ..."