The ALA Core Metadata Standards Committee is developing a rubric to help information professionals evaluate metadata schemas in order to select one that  would best fit the needs of a given digital project.  A preliminary draft of the Metadata Schema Assessment Framework is ready for public review and feedback.
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, and suggestions for improvement.  

Feedback can be given by commenting on sections within the draft itself, available on Google Drive at this address: bit.ly/CoreMSAF and/or submitting comments in this form.

Comments and feedback will be open through July 18th.