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Unit 3: Introduction to
Metadata
Topic Areas: The unit is an introduction to
metadata concepts, various types
of metadata, and tools to create,
use, and maintain metadata. Includes descriptive,
administrative, structural,
preservation, and meta-metadata.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify the meaning of metadata, its components, and characteristics.
- Define different types of metadata standards and their roles.
Guiding Questions:
- What is meant by metadata?
- What are the different types
of metadata?
- What purposes do these
different types of metadata
serve?
- How are different types of
metadata implemented?
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Required Readings
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Joudrey
& Taylor, The
Organization of Information,
Chapter 5
Riley,
Understanding Metadata
One of the following:
Banerjee, "The Linked Data Myth"
EARLY WARNING ALERT: Start reading the following for Week 5:
IFLA,
Library Reference Model
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Relevant Articles from
Encyclopedia of Library and
Information Science
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Gibbins and
Shadbolt, "RDF"
Greenberg, "Metadata
and Digital Information"
Myntti, "Linked
Data"
Zeng and Chan,
"Semantic Interoperability" |
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Recommended Readings
Articles
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Cantara,
"METS"
Cundiff,
"An
Introduction to METS" (link
to article)
Havens
and Storey, "Metadata Everywhere." |
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Recommended Readings
Web Resources
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Elings
and Waibel, "Metadata for All"
Baca (ed.), Introduction to Metadata
Heery and
Patel, "Application
Profiles"
Miller,
"Metadata Resources"
St.Pierre
and LaPlant, "We Used to Call It Publishing: Issues in
Crosswalking"
Swoger,
"What is Metadata?: A Christmas themed exploration."
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Recommended Readings
Books at Beatley
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Gartner, Metadata in the Digital Library: Building an Integrated Strategy with XML, Chapter 2 and Chapter 6
Joudrey, Introduction to Cataloging and
Classification, 11th
edition, Chapter 3, p. 61-101
Miller, Metadata for digital collections
Mitchell,
Metadata Standards and Web
Services in Libraries, Archives,
and Museums
Zeng,
Metadata, Chapters 1-2
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Select metadata schemes,
models, tools, and sites
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CIDOC-Conceptual Reference Model,
http://cidoc-crm.org/
Crosswalk examples:
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative,
http://www.dublincore.org/
IFLA Library Reference Model
(LRM), https://www.ifla.org/publications/node/11412
LinkedDataTools.com,
"Introducing Linked Data And The
Semantic Web"
http://www.linkeddatatools.com/semantic-web-basics
METS: Metadata Encoding &
Transmission Standard, http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/.
PREMIS: Preservation Metadata
Maintenance Activity, http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/
RDF, https://www.w3.org/RDF/
Tauberer,
"What is RDF?"
http://www.xml.com/.../rdf.html
W3C,
"Metadata Actvity Statement"
explanation of RDF
http://www.w3.org/Metadata/Activity.html
W3C,
Semantic Web FAQ
http://www.w3.org/RDF/FAQ
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Course Outline
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- Unit 1:
Introduction to Information
Organization
- Unit 2:
Environments and their Tools
- Unit 3:
Introduction to Metadata
- Unit 4:
Encoding
- Unit 5:
Description
- Unit 6:
Access & Authority Control
- Unit 7:
Aboutness & Subject Analysis
- Unit 8:
Vocabulary Control
- Unit 9:
Categorization, Classification,
& Arrangement
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