Basic Metadata Workshop

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Basic Metadata Workshop
An introduction to metadata and its application
Claire Hill Project Coordinator, AVEL
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What is metadata?
structured data which describes the
characteristics of a resource Chris Taylor, 1999
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Why use it?

• Organise information
• Improve access to information
• Allow users to tell whether it will be of use to
  them

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Metadata deployment
1. Embedding in HTML code of a website ltMETA
NAME"DC.Identifier" SCHEME"URI"
CONTENT"http//avel.edu.au"gt ltMETA
NAME"DC.Title.Main" CONTENT"Australian Virtual
Engineering Library (AVEL) home page"gt ltMETA
NAME"DC.Language" SCHEME"RFC1766" CONTENT"en"gt
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Metadata deployment
2. Separate HTML document linking to a resource
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Metadata deployment
3. Database record linked to a resource
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Dublin Core

• Content/About the Resource
• Title, Subject, Description, Source, Language,
  Relation, Coverage
• Intellectual Property
• Creator, Publisher, Contributor, Rights
• Electronic/Physical manifestation
• Date, Type, Format, Identifier

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Developing a schema

• Metadata schema - overall plan of how resources
  will be managed
• Consider potential services

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AVEL Gateway Model
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AVEL metadata tools

• HotMeta - DSTC
• Basic package
• template for record creation
• repository
• search engine

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Support tools

• Thesaurus
• Resource Selection Criteria
• Metadata Manual
• Target Audience

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AVEL Team
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Record creation

• AVEL records created from scratch (harvesting a
  future possibility)
• Each website sent standard email advising
  inclusion

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Issues

• quality control and standardisation
• interoperability
• sustainability

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References

• An Introduction to Metadata
• http//www.library.uq.edu.au/iad/ctmeta4.html
• Meta Matters
• http//www.nla.gov.au/meta/
• Metadata for the masses
• http//www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue5/metadata-masses/