This course is designed specifically to help you consider how to effectively incorporate metadata into the fabric of your digital collections, through explanation, discussion and practical activities.
Anyone new to describing and cataloguing digital media. Some previous knowledge of metadata will be useful but not essential.
- Importance of metadata for digital collections
- Choosing appropriate standards for your collection
- Metadata for different communities (e.g. museums, libraries, archives)
- Metadata for different purposes (e.g. retrieval, administration, preservation)
- Metadata for different media (e.g. still images, video, audio)
- Different types of metadata (e.g. categories, controlled vocabularies, subject classifications)
- Introduction to storing metadata (e.g. databases, image tagging, XML)
- Introduction to some alternative approaches (e.g. content-based retrieval, user-created metadata)
- Critical review of real world examples
