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Alasdair MacDonald is the Collections Manager (Metadata) at Edinburgh University Library, where he has worked since 2014. He has previously held positions at the Bodleian Library and National Library of Scotland. Alasdair has served on DCMI) Governing Board since 2017 and as the Chair since 2021. He is also the Vice Chair of the Metadata and Discovery Group Scotland Committee. Alasdair’s areas of professional practice and interest include metadata standards and interoperability, authority control and the application of library metadata for collections management workflows.