Metadata Principles and Practices: Metadata Basics

Do you catalog? Do you plan digital projects? Do you wish to better understand the role of metadata and how it works? This 2-hour course will cover the basics of metadata. Topics include: defining metadata; outlining the purposes and functions of metadata; list the components of a metadata infrastructure and keys to successfully launching a new metadata standard; understand how well formed XML provides a framework for expressing metadata in an online environment. This course is part of a four part series entitled Metadata Principles & Practices.

* This course is eligible for micro-credentialing (optional) - What is micro-credentialing?

1. Complete the following courses:
   • Metadata Principles and Practices: Metadata Basics
   • Metadata Principles and Practices: Metadata Standards and Types
   • Metadata Principles and Practices: Metadata Customization, Exchange, Transformation and Migration
   • Metadata Principles and Practices: Metadata Relationships
2. Complete extra requirements for micro-credentialing participants:
   • Extra homework per course
   • Extra capstone project (extra $70 fee)- information on the capstone project here