Metadata for You

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Metadata for You Me
http//www.dlib.indiana.edu/mym/

• Section 4Defining Shareable Metadata
  Foundations

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.
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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

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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

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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

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The Cs Ss of Shareable Metadata

• Content
• Coherence
• Context
• Communication
• Consistency
• Conformance to
• Standards

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Metadata for You Me Online

• http//www.dlib.indiana.edu/mym/
• Whats 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

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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

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