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ABOUT AIIM▪ AIIM (Association for Information and Image Management) is the
global community of information professionals. Our mission is to help you and your organization survive and thrive in this era of Information Chaos by solving these 4 key business problems:▪ How do we manage the risk of growing volumes of content?
▪ How do we automate our content-intensive business processes?
▪ How do we use content to better engage and collaborate?
▪ How do we gain business insight from all of this information?
▪ www.aiim.org
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ABOUT AIIM TORONTO
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▪ The First Canadian Chapter services▪ Toronto
▪ Montreal, and
▪ Ottawa
▪ Brings together members for education and networking
▪ Looking for volunteers to help with running the chapter
ABOUT YOUR PRESENTER
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▪ Rob Hanna, ECMs▪ President of Precision Content Authoring Solutions
Inc. and a director of AIIM First Canadian Chapter
▪ Expert in structured authoring and content management practices and technology
▪ Instructor at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies – Metadata and Controlled Vocabularies
METADATA DEFINED▪ Coined in the 1960’s by Jack Myers
▪ Data about Data
▪ Stuff about Stuff
▪ Essential properties stored within the content or external to the content that identify and define context, history, and management of the content
APPLICATION OF METADATA▪ Metadata is
▪ applied to all structured and unstructured content in a corpus
▪ visible to the user or it can be hidden from view
▪ both machine-driven and manually entered
▪ internal or external to the content
▪ mandatory, optional, or conditional
MANY FORMS OF METADATA▪ Corporate metadata is structured data about content
▪ Metadata is relational or hierarchical
▪ Metadata may take the form of▪ Rich-text or binary
▪ Plain-text
▪ Controlled values/pick-lists/lookup values
▪ Syntax encoded values▪ date/time (e.g., yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss)▪ financial ($0.00, -$0.00)▪ numeric - integer/floating values (#,###)▪ boolean (true/false)▪ special (phone numbers, postal codes, or social insurance numbers)
Metadata
MANY ROLES OF METADATA▪ The primary role of metadata is to facilitate the identification, retrieval,
and processing of content in any media.
▪ Secondarily, metadata may also▪ appear as content to the content consumer, and
▪ serve as corporate structured data for analysis and business intelligence.
Metadata
METADATA IS THE SOUP CANContent is the soup
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METADATA ISN’T THE MESSAGE
▪ Twitter post(118 chars)
▪ Twitter status message metadata (1,938 chars)
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"screen_name"=>"twitterapi""name"=>"Twitter API","description"=>"The Real Twitter API. I tweet about API changes, service issues and happily answer questions about
Twitter and our API. Don't qet an answer? It's on my website.","url"=>"http://apiwiki.twitter.com","location"=>"San Francisco, CA","profile_background_color"=>"cldfee","profile_background_image_url"=>"http://a3.twimg.com/profile_background_images/59931895/twitterapi-background-new.png ","profile_background_tile"=>false,"profile_image_url"=>"http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/689684365/api_normal.png","profile_link_color"=>"0000ff","profile_sidebar_border_color"=>"87bc44","profile_sidebar_fill_color"=>"e0ff92","profile_text_color"=>"000000","created_at"=>"Wed May 23 06:01:13 +0000 2007","contributors_enabled"=>true,"favourites_count"=>1"statuses_count"=>1628"friends_count"=>13"time_zone"=>"Pacific Time (US & Canada)","utc_offset"=>-28800,"lang"=>"en","protected"=>false,"followers_count"=>100581,"geo_enabled"=>true,"notifications"=>false,"following"=>true"verified"=>true}"contributors"=>[3191321]"geo"=>nil"coordinates"=>nil"place"=>{"id"=>"2b6ff8c22edd9576",
"url"=>"http ://api.twitter.com/1/geo/id/2b6ff8c22ed9576.json","name">"SoMa","full_name"=>"SoMa, San Francisco","place_type"=>"neighborhood","country_code"=>"US","country "=>"The United States of America","bounding_box"=>{"coordinates"=>[[[-122.42284884, 37.76893497],
[-122 .3964, 37.76893497],[-122.3964, 37.78752897],[-122.42284884, 37.78752897]]],
"type"=>"Polygon"}},"source"=> "web"}
An early look at Annotations:http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-api-
announce/browse_thread/thread/fa5da2608865453
WHY METADATA MATTERSCollection and use of metadata has been known to be controversial when viewed out of context of the content it carries.
Electronic Frontier Foundation30 December 2013
Metadata Importance of Metadata▪ They know you rang a phone sex service at 2:24 am and spoke for 18 minutes. But they don’t know what you talked about.
▪ They know you called the suicide prevention hotline from the Golden Gate Bridge. But the topic of the call remains a secret.
▪ They know you spoke with an HIV testing service, then your doctor, then your health insurance company in the same hour. But they don’t know what was discussed
TYPES OF METADATALibrary of Congress states that metadata consists of• Descriptive Metadata• Administrative Metadata, and• Structural Metadata
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▪ Classification is the ordering of entities (things or concepts) into groups or classes on the basis of their similarity
▪ an activity that we do everyday
▪ metadata and controlled vocabularies are tools that can be used for classification
THINKING ABOUT CLASSIFICATION
analyst brake market staplerseat traders alternator investorcalculators scissors engine pedal
dashboard pen backers markertape profit starter ruler prospects
THINKING ABOUT CLASSIFICATIONHow many words can you memorize in 20 seconds?
analyst brake market stapler
dashboard pen backer marker
seat trader alternator investor
pedalcalculator scissors engine
tape profit starter ruler prospect
THINKING ABOUT CLASSIFICATION1. Filter out all of the noise
analyst brake market stapler
dashboard pen
backer
marker
seat
trader
alternator
investor
pedalcalculator scissors engine
tapeprofitstarter
ruler prospect
THINKING ABOUT CLASSIFICATION2. Break into smaller groupings
dashboardalternator pedalbrake seatengine starter
marker
staplerscissorstape
pen calculatorruler
analyst market backer
investortraderprofitprospect
THINKING ABOUT CLASSIFICATION3. Organize words by similarities
dashboardalternator pedalbrake seatengine starter
marker
staplerscissorstape
pen calculatorruler
analyst market backer
investortraderprofitprospect
Stock market Office supplies
Car parts
THINKING ABOUT CLASSIFICATION4. Classify and label groups
THINKING ABOUT CLASSIFICATION
Stock market Office supplies Car partsanalyst stapler brakemarket calculator seattrader scissors dashboard
investor pen enginebacker marker alternatorprofit tape starter
prospect ruler pedal
How well did you do?
THINKING ABOUT CLASSIFICATION
Vegetables Computer parts Instrumentspeas hard drive violin
endive sound card harpcarrots monitor pianospinach mouse trumpetcelery processor cello
broccoli flash drive flutetomato keyboard guitar
Now how many words can youmemorize in 20 seconds?
CONTROLLED VOCABULARIES▪ Some metadata requires a classification, controlled list of values or terms to
define it, for example:▪ Film rating: G, PG, 14A, 18A, R, A▪ Ebay seller location:
▪ Control is exercised over modifications to the list
Controlled vocabularies defined▪ A list of terms▪ All terms in a controlled vocabulary must
have an unambiguous, non-redundant definition. (Source: ANSI/NISO Z39.19-2005)
Controlled VocabulariesWhat is a controlled vocabulary?Why use controlled vocabularies?Types of controlled vocabularies
BRIDGING BOUNDARIES -WHICH TERM IS “RIGHT”?
Accessible parking spaces
Accessible permit parking
Disabled permit parking
Designated disabled parking spaces
Handicapped parking
Disabled parking spaces
TOWARDS A COMMON VOCABULARY
Accessible parking spaces
Accessible permit parking
Disabled permit parking
Designated disabled parking spaces
Handicapped parking
Disabled parking spaces
TYPES OF CLASSIFICATION SCHEMES▪ Subject
▪ Identify content topics
▪ Organization Structure▪ Depicts business units
▪ Functional▪ Defined by business processes
SUBJECT TAXONOMIES▪ Describes the topic of the resource
▪ Structured from broad to narrow / general to specific
▪ Often stable over time
ORGANIZATION CLASSIFICATION▪ Shows business unit relationships
▪ Can be used to identify:▪ Ownership of content
▪ Maintenance responsibilities
▪ A person’s place in the organization
▪ Often change frequently
FUNCTIONAL CLASSIFICATION▪ Describes the breakdown of business processes
▪ Function – Activity - Task
▪ Stable in nature unless new processes or functions are introduced
Taxonomy
TAXONOMIES▪ Types of taxonomies
▪ Lists
▪ Trees
▪ Hierarchies and polyhierarchies
▪ Matricies, and
▪ System maps
ADMINISTRATIVE METADATA▪ Information about the metadata record itself – its creation,
modification, relationship to other records, etc. ▪ Audit trails may capture the date and time when a file’s title was changed.
▪ Common subsets of administrative metadata are:▪ Rights Management: metadata that deals with intellectual property rights
▪ Preservation: information needed to archive / preserve a resource
Source: Understanding Metadata – NISO 2004
SEPARATION OF STATUS METADATA▪ Much of the administrative metadata is applied automatically by the
system
▪ Other administrative metadata may live with the workflow rather than the record itself
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ABOUT STRUCTURAL METADATA▪ Describe the structure of a resource
▪ Book
▪ Document
▪ Website
▪ Table of contents
▪ Site map
▪ Internal structure
WHAT IS XML?▪ (eXtensible Markup Language) is an open
standard for the exchange of information▪ first published in 1996 by W3C
▪ to encode electronic documents readable by▪ human, and▪ machine
▪ for a multitude of applications ranging from▪ corporate financial reporting applications, to ▪ Microsoft Word
XML IS EVERYWHEREXML defines meaningful data structures for documents and data. It is a human-readable file format used to power
• manufacturing assembly lines
• medical devices
• military applications, and
• many other things.
XML is the language of the Web. It enables smart phones and web browsers.
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WHAT ARE MARKUP LANGUAGES?▪ pre-date desktop publishing and the Internet
▪ tell computers how to handle data▪ such as how to render electronic content on a page
▪ categorized as either▪ presentation, or
▪ semantic markup
PRESENTATION MARKUP▪ With electronic presentation markup, we markup the
paragraph and italicize the citation for publication
▪ This is typical of web pages using hypertext markup (HTML)
The Cancer Journal: The Journal of Principles & Practice of Oncology provides an integrated view of modern oncology across all disciplines.
<p><i>The Cancer Journal: The Journal of Principles & Practice of Oncology</i> provides an integrated view of modern oncology across <i>all</i> disciplines.</p>
The Cancer Journal: The Journal of Principles & Practice of Oncology provides an integrated view of modern oncology across all disciplines.
SEMANTIC MARKUP▪ With semantic markup, we markup the content to describe the meaning
of the text
▪ Publishing stylesheets interpret the meaning from the markup and apply appropriate styles specific to the publishing context
The Cancer Journal: The Journal of Principles & Practice of Oncology provides an integrated view of modern oncology across all disciplines.
<intro><cite>The Cancer Journal: The Journal of Principles & Practice of Oncology</cite> provides an integrated view of modern oncology across <em>all</em> disciplines.</intro>
The Cancer Journal: The Journal of Principles & Practice of Oncology provides an integrated view of modern oncology across all disciplines.The Cancer Journal: The Journal of Principles & Practice of Oncology provides an integrated view of modern oncology across all disciplines.
SEMANTIC MARKUP▪ Using semantic markup, we
can▪ disambiguate content▪ search based on meaning▪ connect to other content, and▪ reuse or substitute new text.
MULTI-CHANNEL PUBLISHING
▪ Supports complex, multi-channel publishing to many common output formats
▪ Add new formats or styles easily
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INTELLIGENT CONTENT▪ Content that is
▪ not limited to one▪ purpose▪ technology, or▪ output
▪ structurally rich and semantically aware, making it▪ discoverable▪ reusable▪ reconfigurable, and▪ adaptable.
Communicating the benefits
Demonstrating interoperability with business examples
Keywords Fort York; children, soldier, history
Creator Jose San Juan
Asset Credit City of Toronto
HeadlineA British soldier in historical red uniform salutes children at Fort York
Communicating the benefits
Demonstrate reuse with business examples
write Headline once using DAL or Adobe CS: “A British soldier in historical red uniform salutes children at Fort York”
Reuse Headline during design, as alt-tag for screen readers (to comply with AODA)
Reuse Headlineto search for files in DAL
“Let me tell you how dangerous it is to design a classification scheme. It’s very dangerous. I have
suffered.
People attribute all kinds of motives to you. Apart from that, if anything goes wrong, they will pounce upon
you.”
– Melvil Dewey
Dublin Core Metadata StandardInternational Press Telecommunications Council – Photo MetadataAdobe XMP – Extensible Metadata PlatformRules for Archival Description
DUBLIN CORE
▪ maintains a vocabulary of metadata properties and encoding schemes
▪ core set of 15 properties for use in describing resources:
Metadata
ContributorCoverageCreatorDateDescription
FormatIdentifierLanguagePublisherRelation
RightsSourceSubjectTitleType
ISO METADATA STANDARDS▪ ISO 23081 – Metadata for Records
▪ Recommendations for metadata required to manage records▪ Metadata about the record itself▪ Metadata about the business rules or policies and mandates▪ Metadata about the agents▪ Metadata about business activities or processes▪ Metadata about records management processes
Metadata
ISO 2788 – DEVELOPMENT OF MONOLINGUAL THESAURI• Latest edition published in 1986
• Media- and Language-Agnostic
• Applicable across both broad and narrow subject areas and describes how to deal with multiple domains
• Intended to ensure consistency of practice across different agencies
• Provides recommendations rather than mandatory instructions
• Outlines optional procedures for many special cases where a standard approach may not be applicable
Thesaurus
QUESTIONS?Rob HannaContact me through• www.linkedin.com/in/singlesourceror• [email protected]
WHO IS PRECISION CONTENT AUTHORING SOLUTIONS INC.?▪ We help organizations across North America make their information
easier to use
▪ Our solutions consist of ▪ Content strategy
▪ Detailed information architecture
▪ Content lifecycle design and development
▪ Turn-key content transformation
▪ Tools selection and development
▪ Multi-channel publishing
▪ www.precisioncontent.com
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