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| Contact Information |
Instructor: Daniel N. Joudrey
E-mail: joudrey@simmons.edu
Office: P-205B
Phone: (617) 521-2863 |
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| Unit 3: Metadata Basics |
The unit is an introduction to metadata concepts, various types of metadata, and tools to create, use and maintain metadata.
Topics: Descriptive metadata, Administrative metadata, Structural metadata, METS, Meta-metadata, and Preservation metadata
- What is metadata?
- What are the different types of metadata?
- What purposes do these different types of metadata serve?
- What are some special problems involved in describing Internet resources?
- How are different types of metadata implemented?
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Required Readings |
Taylor, The Organization of Information, Chapter 6
Hodge, Understanding Metadata http://www.niso.org/publications/press/UnderstandingMetadata.pdf
Caplan, Metadata Fundamentals for All Librarians, Chapters 16 - 18
Schottlaender, "Why Metadata? Why Me? Why Now?" |
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Recommended Readings
Articles |
Agnew, "Developing a Metadata Strategy"
Cantara, "METS"
Cundiff, "An Introduction to METS"
Milstead and Feldman, "Metadata: Cataloging by Any..." (really old, but useful) |
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Recommended Readings
Web Sites |
Metadata Mappings (Crosswalks) http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/subjects/metadata/mappings.html
St.Pierre and LaPlant, "Issues in Crosswalking" http://www.niso.org/publications/white_papers/crosswalk/
Tennant, "Metadata As If Libraries Depended on It." http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA206408.html
Tennant, "Metadata's Bitter Harvest" http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA43444
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Recommended Readings
Books |
Hudgins, Agnew, and Brown, Getting Mileage out of Metadata, pp. 1-30
Intner, Metadata and its Impact on Libraries, Chapter 1 |
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Vocabulary |
- Adminstrative metadata
- Application Profiles
- Attribute
- Content
- Content Standards
- Crosswalks
- Descriptive metadata
- Element
- Extensibility
- Flexibility
- FRBR
- Granularity
- Interoperability
- Metadata
- Metadata Elements
- Metadata Registries
- Metadata Schemas
- Meta-metadata
- METS
- Namespace
- Preservation metadata
- Rights metadata
- Semantics
- Structure
- Structural metadata
- Syntax
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Course Outline |
- Unit 1: Introduction and Environments
- Unit 2: Retrieval Tools & Current Systems
- Unit 3: Introduction to Metadata
- Unit 4: Encoding Standards
- Unit 5: Description
- Unit 6: Access & Authority Control
- Unit 7 : Aboutness & Subject Analysis
- Unit 8 : Vocabulary Control
- Unit 9 : Categorization, Classification, & Arrangement
- Unit 10: The Past
- Unit 11: The Future
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| Updated June 16, 2008. |
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