A presentation to accompany a workshop I ran on behalf of UKOLN - http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ - , University of Bath, at the Repositories Support Project Winter School in 2009 - http://www.rsp.ac.uk/. The workshop was designed to give repository managers an introduction to metadata as it related to their work.
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Metadata - What Works, What Doesn't? 2009
1. Metadata - what works, what
doesn’t?
Stephanie Taylor
UKOLN, University of Bath
E - s.taylor@ukoln.ac.uk
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2. About Me
Stephanie Taylor:
• Work with UKOLN as a research officer
• Work on the practical side of institutional
repositories
• Worked on the first phase of the RSP
UKOLN:
• National centre of expertise in digital
information management
• Located at the University of Bath
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3. What Is Metadata?
Metadata is structured information
that describes, explains, locates,
or otherwise makes it easier to
retrieve, use, or manage an
information resource.
Source: NISO (2004) Understanding Metadata. Bethesda, NISO
Press.
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4. Metadata is…
Structured data about “something”
• Text
• Images
• Sound
• Movement
• Objects
• Events
• Services
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5. Metadata is…
Encountered every day
• Timetables
• Directories
• Internet shopping sites, etc
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6. Metadata is…
Stored in -
• Databases, repositories
• Web pages
Carriers
• Formats (e.g. MARC)
• Markup languages (e.g. HTML, SGML,
XML)
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7. Types of metadata
Descriptive
Structural
Administrative
• Rights management metadata
• Preservation metadata
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8. Why do you need it?
•To enable discovery of your digitised material
• To enable harvesting of your digitised
material by external systems
• To help you organise your digitised material
• To support archiving and preservation
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9. Metadata Schemas
A metadata scheme is a sets of metadata
elements designed for a specific purpose,
such as describing a particular type of
information resource.
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10. Current Standards
“Standards are like toothbrushes, everyone
agrees that they’re a good idea but nobody
wants to use anyone else’s.” From a Murtha
Baca presentation
Dublin Core
(Simple, Qualified, Application Profiles)
MARC, ONIX
EAD
MODS, METS, DIDL, PREMIS, MIX, RSLP-
CD etc.
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11. Out of the box…
Realistically most people when first
establishing online digitised resource will work
with what comes out of the box … but fields
can be added and schemes customised.
Explore types and field structures at an early
stage and set up your metadata scheme.
Consider local needs such as departmental
and project work structures and any local
decisions needed about subject fields etc.
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12. The “Other” Repositories
What *might* be a repository?
• Flickr?
• Google Docs?
• YouTube?
• SlideShare?
• Wikipedia?
• Twitter?
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13. Folksonomy & Tagging
Metadata for the people, by the peopl
• Keywords
• Descriptive
• Created by and for human beings
• Inconsistent
• Personal
• Shared
• Created on the fly
• Unstructured
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