Metadata for Repository Administrators 2010
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The document discusses the importance and functionality of metadata in digital information management, as presented by Stephanie Taylor at a workshop for repository administrators. It covers types of metadata, its necessity for the organization and preservation of digital materials, and mentions various metadata standards and schemas. Additionally, it introduces the concept of folksonomy and tagging, highlighting their user-driven nature.
Metadata for Repository Administrators 2010
- 1. A centre of expertise in digital information management Metadata RSP Workshop for Repository Administrators Oxford 11/August/2010 Stephanie Taylor Research Officer UKOLN, University of Bath E - s.taylor@ukoln.ac.uk UKOLN is supported by: This work is licensed under a Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 licence (but note caveat)
- 2. A centre of expertise in digital information management 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
- 3. A centre of expertise in digital information management 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.
- 4. A centre of expertise in digital information management 4 What Is Metadata? (1) Structured data about “something” • Text • Images • Sound • Movement • Objects • Events • Services
- 5. A centre of expertise in digital information management 5 What Is Metadata? (2) Encountered every day • Timetables • Directories • Internet shopping sites, etc
- 6. A centre of expertise in digital information management 6 Metadata is… Stored in - • Databases, repositories • Web pages Carriers • Formats (e.g. MARC) • Markup languages (e.g. HTML, SGML, XML)
- 7. A centre of expertise in digital information management 7 Types of metadata Descriptive Structural Administrative • Rights management metadata • Preservation metadata
- 8. A centre of expertise in digital information management 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
- 9. A centre of expertise in digital information management 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.
- 10. A centre of expertise in digital information management 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.
- 11. A centre of expertise in digital information management 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.
- 12. A centre of expertise in digital information management 12 The “Other” Repositories What *might* be a repository? • Flickr? • Google Docs? • YouTube? • SlideShare? • Wikipedia? • Twitter?
- 13. A centre of expertise in digital information management 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