The unit explores conceptual models to describe the universe of information, various principles for description and access, and the basic descriptive metadata elements that are used to create records for information resources. Topics addressed include descriptive elements, IFLA LRM, RDA, Dublin Core, bibliographic relationships, and choosing access points for works and expressions.
- Explain why we describe resources.
- Articulate the basics of the IFLA LRM model and discuss their consequences for resource description.
- Identify metadata concerns that are common across different information communities.
- Identify common attributes for description.
- Explain the role of access points in making metadata records available to users.
- Use RDA to choose access points for works.
- Create a Dublin Core descriptive record according to best practices.
- Connect the efficient and appropriate description of resources with the effect this has on a user's ability to find, identify, select, obtain, and explore a collection.
- Navigate within the RDA Toolkit.
- Find and apply rules contained in RDA.
- Describe ISBD and how the elements of ISBD appear in a catalog record.
- Why do we describe resources?
- What is IFLA LRM?
- What metadata concerns are common across communities?
- What attributes are common?
- What is a resource description/metadata record?
- How are metadata records made available to users via access points?
- How do access points affect collocation?
Week 1: Conceptual Models and Principles
Joudrey, The Organization of Information, Chapter 7 and Chapter 8 (p. 269–277)
Banerjee, "The Linked Data Myth"
And please read/watch at least one of the following:
- Myntti, "Linked Data," The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science
- Sporny, "What is Linked Data?" on YouTube
Week 2: Description and Access
Joudrey, The Organization of Information, Chapter 8
Meissner, Arranging and Describing Archives and Manuscripts, Chapters 2 and 3 and examples
Week 3: Standards, Issues, and Tools
Joudrey, The Organization of Information, Chapter 9
Explore:
- Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
- RDA: Resource Description and Access [access through Moodle]
- Baca, Cataloguing Cultural Objects: A Guide to Describing Cultural Works and Their Images
- Cataloging Ethics Steering Committee, Cataloguing Code of Ethics
- Getty, Categories for the Description of Works of Art (CDWA)
- CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model: http://cidoc-crm.org/
- IFLA, International Standard Bibliographic Description
- IFLA, Statement of International Cataloguing Principles
- Joudrey, Introduction to Cataloging & Classification
- LinkedDataTools.com, "Introducing Linked Data and the Semantic Web"
- Miller, Metadata for Digital Collections
- ONIX International, ONIX for Books
- Society of American Archivists, DACS Primer 1: What is Archival Description? and DACS Primer 2: Principles of Archival Description [videos]
- Tauberer, "What is RDF?"
- TEI Consortium, Text Encoding Initiative
- Visual Resource Association, "VRA Core 4.0"
- W3C, "Metadata Activity Statement" http://www.w3.org/Metadata/Activity.html
- W3C, RDF https://www.w3.org/RDF/
- W3C, Semantic Web FAQ http://www.w3.org/RDF/FAQ
- Duff and Thibodeau, "International Standards for Archival Description"
- Escolano Rodriguez, "Descriptive Cataloging Principles"
- Evans, McKemmish, and Reed, "Archival Arrangement and Description"
- Gibbins and Shadbolt, "RDF"
- Krummel, "Bibliography"
- O'Keefe and Oldal, "Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO)"
- Vanhoutte and Van den Branden, "Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)"
- Weibel, "Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI): A Personal History"