A Training Program for Shareable Metadata

Metadata for You & Me is a collaboration between the University of Illinois Library and Indiana University.This project is made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services

through the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program.

Metadata for You & Me

Section 4:Defining Shareable Metadata:

Foundations

http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/mym/

Shareable Metadata…

• Is quality metadata • Promotes search interoperability - “the ability

to perform a search over diverse sets of metadata records and obtain meaningful results” (Priscilla Caplan)

• Is human understandable outside of its local context

• Is useful outside of its local context• Preferably is machine processable

Shareable Metadata as a View

• Metadata is not monolithic

• Metadata should be a view projected from a single information object

• Create multiple views appropriate for groups of important sharing venues

• Depends on:– Use– Audience

Choice of vocabularies as a view

• Names– ULAN: Master of the Strache Altar – LC: L. Cz. (Lorenz Katzheimer), Meister

• Places– LCSH: Springfield (Ill.) – TGN: Springfield

• Subjects– LCSH: Neo-impressionism (Art)– AAT: Pointillism

The Cs & Ss of Shareable Metadata

Content

Coherence

Context

Communication

Consistency

Conformance to

Standards

Metadata for You & Me Online

• http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/mym/

• What’s available:– Workshop slides in Powerpoint format– Brief textual versions of workshop materials– Supplemental materials such as references, links, and activities

• Up next: Section 4: Defining Shareable Metadata: Content

Credits• The development of the Metadata for You & Me

curriculum was funded through a Laura Bush 21st Century Librarianship grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services

• The content for this course grew out of work sponsored by the Digital Library Federation and National Science Digital Library to develop best practices for use of OAI-PMH and shareable metadata

• We would also like to thank:– Richard Urban, MYM Project Manager– Institutions hosting on-site workshops– …and all participants in the online and on-site workshops for

your valuable contributions towards the evolution of this training program This work is licensed under the Creative Commons

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