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Understanding Metadata: Organizing and Providing Access to Information

Explore the importance of metadata and its application in information organization and access, with an overview of Dublin Core and metadata schema development. Learn about metadata deployment methods and tools, including AVEL metadata resources.

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Understanding Metadata: Organizing and Providing Access to Information

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  1. Basic Metadata Workshop An introduction to metadata and its application Claire Hill Project Coordinator, AVEL

  2. What is metadata? … structured data which describes the characteristics of a resource Chris Taylor, 1999

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

  4. Metadata deployment 1. Embedding in HTML code of a website <META NAME="DC.Identifier" SCHEME="URI" CONTENT="http://avel.edu.au"> <META NAME="DC.Title.Main" CONTENT="Australian Virtual Engineering Library (AVEL) home page"> <META NAME="DC.Language" SCHEME="RFC1766" CONTENT="en">

  5. Metadata deployment 2. Separate HTML document linking to a resource

  6. Metadata deployment 3. Database record linked to a resource

  7. 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

  8. Developing a schema • Metadata schema - overall plan of how resources will be managed • Consider potential services

  9. Services Interface Search & Browse Repository Latest Resources Added Record Creation & Editing Jobs & Employment Conference Announcements Links to other gateways Link checking Metadata Schema Mirror Newsletter Documentation Thesaurus AVEL Gateway Model

  10. AVEL metadata tools • HotMeta - DSTC • Basic package • template for record creation • repository • search engine

  11. Support tools • Thesaurus • Resource Selection Criteria • Metadata Manual • Target Audience

  12. UQ Core Team QUT DSTC Brisbane IEAust Nat Lib UNSW Sydney Melb U Canberra Melbourne Monash AVEL Team

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

  14. Issues • quality control and standardisation • interoperability • sustainability

  15. 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/

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