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Navigating Metadata in a Multifaceted Information Landscape

Learn the significance of metadata in enhancing searchability, functionality, and interoperability across various information fields and formats. Discover different frameworks like Dublin Core, ISO, and Library of Congress. Explore challenges with non-text media metadata.

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Navigating Metadata in a Multifaceted Information Landscape

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  1. it’s allmeta

  2. well, maybe not, but still… panel ripped from “Slowpoke” by Jen Sorensen (www.slowpokecomic.com)

  3. from the W3C Semantic Web Activity homepage www.w3c.org/2001/sw: “The Semantic Web is about two things. It is about common formats for interchange of data, where on the original Web we only had interchange of documents. Also it is about language for recording how the data relates to real world objects."

  4. we all know good metadata is important, right? • Metadata enables searchability and retrieval • Metadata increases functionality • Metadata facilitates interoperability example: MP3 + ID3 

  5. so why is it an issue? • A multitude of fields, each with different ideas of how to represent knowledge/info, trying to work with each other in the same information space • A plethora of information formats, each with different metadata requirements • And a whole bunch of wildly different frameworks and schemas

  6. what about Dublin Core? • A good start: • A simple structure • Widely recognized • Schema available for XML and RDF • But… • Minimal functionality • Mainly useful for web-based text documents

  7. who else is in the game? Nearly everybody. To name a few: • ISO • Library of Congress: MARC21, MODS (Metadata Object Description Schema), METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard) • Adobe XMP

  8. the problem of non-text media

  9. questions

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