Metadata

John Dingle

History Liaison & Metadata Librarian

 

  • What metadata is and what it does

  • Examples of metadata for historical collections

  • Dublin Core, Omeka's metadata standard

Today's Class

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Metadata

Think of 5 more forms of metadata you've encountered in the last 24 hours

"data about data"

Find
Identify
Select

Obtain / Use

Petfinder Activity

  1. Go to petfinder.com/
  2. As a group, choose 1 pet to adopt
  3. List the metadata that enabled you to make this choice.
  4. Discuss these questions in your group:
    1. Were there any ways Petfinder could have organized their site differently?
    2. Was anything missing that would have been helpful to have as metadata?

Takeaways

Some metadata is for people to use

Some metadata is for computers to use

Metadata is created with the user in mind

Find
Identify
Select

Obtain / Use

Historical Collections

  1. Spend some time browsing these historical collections:
    1. floridamemory.com/
    2. historymuseum.ca/collections/
    3. exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/rosset
  2. What common metadata appears for many of the items in these collections?
  3. What do you like and dislike about these sites?

Metadata Standards

Dublin Core

Controlled Vocabularies

Thank you!

John Dingle

jdingle@brocku.ca

 

Questions?

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