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Metadata for You & Me

Metadata for You & Me. Section 4: Defining Shareable Metadata: Foundations. http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/mym/.

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Metadata for You & Me

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  1. Metadata for You & Me Section 4:Defining Shareable Metadata: Foundations http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/mym/ 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.

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. The Cs & Ss of Shareable Metadata Content Coherence Context Communication Consistency Conformance to Standards

  6. 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

  7. 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 Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.

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