Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:
- Articulate important concepts, issues, and terminology related to metadata theory, standards, and applications relevant to cultural heritage institutions;
- Analyze and critically apply different approaches to metadata creation, storage, management, and dissemination within different information communities for different purposes;
- Critically analyze and compare different metadata standards and their applicability to different contexts;
- Create descriptive metadata for digital resources using selected metadata structure, content, value, and encoding standards;
- Design and document metadata schemes and application profiles to meet the functional requirements of specific collections, projects, organizations, and communities;
- Apply basic metadata quality metrics to evaluate the quality, interoperability, and shareability of different types of descriptive metadata;
- Be equipped with knowledge and skills relevant to entry-level metadata librarian and metadata specialist positions in cultural heritage organizations.
- Course Syllabus
- Metadata Examples
- Schema Examples
- Class Participation 10%
- Collection Description 10%
- Resource Description Assignment 15%
- Encoding Metadata Assignment 20%
- Metadata Standards Reports 10%
- Final Project - Metadata Design and Documentation Wiki 35%